The Water Stealer
Maurice Riordan was born in in Lisgoold, Co. His first collection, A Word from the Loki was nominated for the T. I woke in the unwonted quiet and noticed its reflections on the ceiling absent this bright morning,. Where were the carp?
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Sunk in the mud or ferried into the dawn by the cormorant? Or was it a town fox that chewed through the tarp so it bled while I dreamt,.
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I mend the leak,and watch the basin fill, the water not the same water: Even so, the lilies untangle and lift their cumbersome pads off the mud — weightless and free, like the dancers in the loft at harvest, when I watched as a child. But no fish… the fish that came with the pond that came with the garden that came with the house that came with the care that came with the children.
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And the pond, which no child fell into, recalled our old pond back in Lisgoold and heat-struck hours with my cousins pawdawling in the duckweed and ooze. But now a fox has come as a thief in the night — not the fox that squeezed through the mesh to the hencoop which our father tracked and shot , no, some miscreant, with a taste for fish. I hope you enjoy the poem, and thanks to Maurice for allowing me to use it.
I woke in the unwonted quiet and noticed its reflections on the ceiling absent this bright morning, the fire outside quenched, the lilies collapsed in a muddy heap, the neon of damselflies, the skim of darters and fleas, of skaters and water boatmen — gone. But no fish… the fish that came with the pond that came with the garden that came with the house that came with the care that came with the children And the pond, which no child fell into, recalled our old pond back in Lisgoold and heat-struck hours with my cousins pawdawling in the duckweed and ooze.
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About this product Description Description. Whether situated in the quiet lanes of his native Co Cork or amid the bustle of his adopted London, the author's poems exist between many states, poised at once in the grip of both activity and stillness, concerned with speaking and listening to what he hauntingly describes as 'the unwonted quiet'.
Maurice Riordan was born in in Lisgoold, Co. His first collection, A Word from the Loki was nominated for the T. Publication Data Place of Publication.
The Water Stealer : An evocative, affectionate and intelligent body of work
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