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

 

 

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