Poem
Bernard O’Donoghue
TETRAPODS
TETRAPODS
TETRAPODS
Keen to encounter mysteries,we all went to examine the footsteps
at Gleannamuckla, permanent imprints
on the grass where during the Land War
the assassin jumped from the ditch
after firing the fatal shot.
Remarkable enough in their way:
two shaggy indentations,
shaped like snowshoes. But not as ominous
for our times as the eight spirited stallions
penned in a small farmyard just nearby
around a haybarn full of last year’s hay,
forelegs flashing, teeth bared, spoiling
for a fight. We kept our distance,
on the safe side of the comforting barbed wire.
© 2011, Bernard O\'Donoghue
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
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TETRAPODS
Keen to encounter mysteries,we all went to examine the footsteps
at Gleannamuckla, permanent imprints
on the grass where during the Land War
the assassin jumped from the ditch
after firing the fatal shot.
Remarkable enough in their way:
two shaggy indentations,
shaped like snowshoes. But not as ominous
for our times as the eight spirited stallions
penned in a small farmyard just nearby
around a haybarn full of last year’s hay,
forelegs flashing, teeth bared, spoiling
for a fight. We kept our distance,
on the safe side of the comforting barbed wire.
TETRAPODS
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