Thin Places by Lesley Choyce

Author:Lesley Choyce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2017-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

The Bus

I took the bus

north through towns with crazy names:

Ennis, Gort, Galway, Tuam, Knock

Tobercurry, Knockbeg, Colooney

and then the city of Sligo.

The Long Way Home

Uncle Seamus met me at the bus station in Sligo.

He’d had a few pints and had been playing fiddle

in a nearby pub.

He asked me to drive us home

and reluctantly I did.

I’d only driven a few times,

and the steering wheel was on the

wrong side of the car.

As I drove

poorly and cautiously

he told tales of his youth

some true

some probably not.

I tried my best to stay on

the left-hand side of the narrow roads.

That clutch

said Seamus

is quirky as a pheasant in heat.

White knuckles on my part

turning on to

Drumcliff at the base of a mountain

Benbulben

then west to Carney

Cloghboley

and finally

Ballyconnell

Bally Bliss

I calls it

my uncle said.

And suddenly

there we were

way out at the westerly edge of Ireland

at what seemed to be

the end of the earth.

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