Alice O. Howell
DINGLE: Church at Dunquin
The little house of Our Father at Dunquin
was full --no room for more
alas
words of the Gaelic sorrows
words of the Gaelic mass
late, I stood outside with others:
good women in tight righteous dresses
fishermen furrowed there were four
I let them pass
words of the Gaelic sorrows
words of the Gaelic mass
the sun was hot on happening flowers
and Christ came out his summer door
and knelt among us
on the grass
words of the Gaelic sorrows
words of the Gaelic mass.
a.o.howell