An Dara Uair

Our wounds, our torn wounds. Always with the letter on the wall, my feet on the chaff

Our wounds, our torn wounds. Always with the letter on the wall, my feet on the chaff. `That night,' he said, and he raised his eye, `I saw your likeness in the mirror.' The dead moth, motionless.

Night after night a stranger slumbering beneath his tunic:

a fig in the hollow of his hand. A thick cross made from soot above the doorway. Outside in the courtyard a cypress perhaps in full bloom; around

ancient tables eleven men, impatient, talking - they wait for him, break bread, drink wine.

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Years pass; somehow amongst empty rooms I heard birds and leaves on the table, the sound of voice (the easily accomplished truth) and the opportunity passed.