Field Work: Poems by Heaney Seamus

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

September Song

In the middle of the way

under the wet of late September

the ash tree flails,

our dog is tearing earth beside the house.

In rising ditches the fern subsides.

Rain-logged berries and stones

are rained upon, acorns

shine from grassy verges every morning.

And it’s nearly over,

our four years in the hedge-school.

If nobody is going to resin a bow

and test the grieving registers for joy

we might as well put on our old record

of John Field’s Nocturnes—

his gifts, waste, solitude, reputation, laughter,

all ‘Dead in Moscow’,

all those gallons of wash for the pure drop,

notes ‘like raindrops, pearls on velvet.’

Remember our American wake?

When we first got footloose

they lifted the roof for us in Belfast,

Hammond, Gunn and McAloon

in full cry till the dawn chorus,

insouciant and purposeful.

Gusts, barking, power-lines shaken

and the music wavering. Inside and out,

babes-in-the-wood weather. We toe the line

between the tree in leaf and the bare tree.

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