Flaggy Shore

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Flaggy Shore – a poem by Liam O’Broin

Just as Heaney
Had instructed,
I made the time
To drive out west
Into County Clare,

Until I could go no further,

And stopped at Furbo.

With nothing Particular in mind,
Apart from the land Itself.

I switched off the engine
And caught the first sounds
Of the Atlantic.

Galway North.
Clare South.
America West.

At home,
Neither here
Nor there.
Caught floating
In between limestone
And surf.

The hard and soft
of it.

The song and dance
of it.

My heart lifts
And all falls away.