Electric Light: Poems by Seamus Heaney

Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

2. CONKERS

All along the dank, sunk, rock-floored lane

To the acropolis in Sparta, we couldn’t help

Tramping on burst shells and crunching down

The high-gloss horse-chestnuts. I thought of kelp

And foals’ hooves, bladderwort, dubbed leather

As I bent to gather them, a hint of ordure

Coming and going off their tainted pith.

Cyclopic stone on each side of the path.

Rings of defence. Breached walls. The looted conkers

Gravid in my satchel, swinging nicely.

Then a daylight moon appeared behind Dimitri

As he sketched and squared his shoulders like a centaur’s

And nodded, nodded, nodded towards the spouses,

Heard but not seen behind much thick acanthus.

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