Portobello Sonnets by Harry Clifton

Author:Harry Clifton [Clifton, Harry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
Published: 2016-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Crunch of a car, in the gravelled yard below,

A rattle of baby carriages. Look out

At the generation forming, the snipped cord,

Ireland drifting away, into a long ago

Policed by myth and terror. New century, new dawn—

And the late-arisen, through the playschool door

Manoeuvring their children. First-time fathers,

Grey already. Women, neither rich nor poor,

Black, yellow and white, still bleary-eyed

From the centuries… This is something else—

Emancipated forenoon, the adulthood

Of the species, pouring its own elevenses,

Breaking bread, in the secular heaven

Of the drop-in centre, the church absolved of hells.

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