FROM THE BOOKSHELF OF SUFFERING


Famine road,

                County Clare,

       leading no where,

                     carrying no one,

   puddles, like pools of

          blood gone black, lie 

                                all about,

well-bound by stonewalls,

                   each stone a bowl of
    
              soup, a meal, a warm belly,

another day on this earth, and
        
        the silent shuffling

                     of feet still drowns out

     the crashing surf below.



A famine road, built by
famished people for a meal.
Ballyvaugn, Ireland
County Clare
November 2001
    

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