The oaks are stricken by a serious illness
They dry up after having let go
Into the glow of a sump at sunset
A whole throng of generals' heads
They dry up after having let go
Into the glow of a sump at sunset
A whole throng of generals' heads
More Than Suspect
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Eavan Boland
1944 -/IrishEavan Boland (born 1944) is an Irish poet and feminist. Boland was born in Dublin. Her father was a career diplomat and she was educated in London and New York as well as in her native city, graduating from Trinity College. Her first books, In Her…
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Anorexic
Flesh is heretic.My body is a witch.
Quarantine
In the worst hour of the worst seasonof the worst year of a whole people
That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
—and not simply by the fact that this shading offorest cannot show the fragrance of balsam,
The Harbour
This harbour was made by art and force.And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire.
Witness
Here is the city—its worn-down mountains,
