The Scar by Mary Cregan
Author:Mary Cregan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-01-27T16:00:00+00:00
Stonecutters, hone
the chisels sharp and cut the words in stone:
“Ursula Kochanowski lies beneath,
Her father’s joy that slipped his loving hands.
Learn from this grave the ways of careless Death:
The green shoot is mown down—the ripe crop stands.”
His daughter’s death struck him so forcibly that in his effort to cope with it he wrote a cycle of laments, poems that registered so powerfully with me that when I came across a few of them in the Times Literary Supplement, I cut them out and saved them. In the final one, Kochanowski describes a dream in which he sees his dead mother holding Ursula in her arms: “my never lovelier Daughter . . . Rose petal skin, eyes bright as a new day.” His mother says she has come from a “distant shore” to comfort him:
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