Tilly Meets The Sea

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Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.

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The sea laps
the hem of your skirt
like an immense tame monster

Dónall Dempsey

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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It was my little girl's first meeting with a sea...she looked so tiny and fragile...the sea looked like a monster that came and bowed at her feet.

I noticed every little molecule of her...alas I didn't write back then so I have to go back to the past and recreate her atom by atom. You ever tried to drag back(atom by atom) a very reluctant sea? It's like trying to take a Kraken for a walk on a leash.

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Clifton Redmond 22 October 2013

This had the kind of depth and grace the reader might envision in the scene you set with so few words, bravo

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