” … Keep at a tangent.
When they make the circle wide, it’s time to swim
out on your own and fill the element
with signatures on your own frequency,
echo-soundings, searches, probes, allurements,
elver gleams in the dark of the whole sea.”
- Seamus Heaney, from ‘Station Island’
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2009/07/01 at 2:42 am
Beautiful lines to share. I love the word ‘elver.’
2009/07/01 at 3:16 am
I read his version of Beowulf… I’m not familiar with anything else by him.
2009/07/01 at 7:14 am
So do I, C.
Hi Lauren, welcome.
2009/07/01 at 6:48 pm
Beautiful. Those last two lines are fantastic. I’ll be thinking all day about “keep at a tangent.” Thanks for sharing. I’ll check it all out.