I Suppose I'm Saying That Defiance Is

The Ireland I Now Inhabit Is One That These Irish Contemporaries Have Helped To Imagine.

Even If The Hopes You Started Out With Are Dashed, Hope Has To Be Maintained.

But Even So, None Of The News Of These World-spasms Entered Me As Terror.

All I Know Is A Door Into The Dark

I Might Enjoy Being An Albatross, Being Able To Glide For Days And Daydream For Hundreds Of Miles Along The Thermals. And Then Being Able To Hang Like An Affliction Round Some People's Necks.