Venus as a Bear by Vahni Capildeo

Author:Vahni Capildeo [Vahni Capildeo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784105556
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2018-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

INISHBOFIN: II

for Deirdre Ní Chonghaile

You do just have to listen to the boatman.

Let the boatman make the decision.

INISHBOFIN: III

for Bernard O’Donoghue

The road goes two ways: right and left,

obvious, the bright white dust;

sure as last year and yesterday,

the harbour where friends disembark

without confusion for the climb

towards the hall on the small hill.

Nothing is interchangeable:

shop, slope, feelproof bone called sand,

variant seaweed, boundary stones.

Dark-sailed and unmistakable.

This man walking from inside light

to outside. Fierce, eventful brain.

Leader through telescopic fields.

Yet if kindness walked with flags,

he’d still be taller.

Like a child

old age is not, and he is not –

He has stopped. And here it starts:

‘I very easily get lost.’

A voice of great sweetness and trust.

Nothing is interchangeable.

This exercise that hurts the heart.

Red-hulled and unmistakable.

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