County Offally, Clonfinlough Stone, Monday, 25th July, 2022

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‘Meadow of the Bright Lake’

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“The Leanan Sidhe sucks the life-force

out of artists who in return for an early death

achieve immortality in their life’s work.”

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Which sounds a bit like the muse.

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“We may think of Sid and Nancy,

Kurt and Courtney,”

and possibly, even, Jim and Pamela?

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Was this wild charge into the unreality

of reality prompted merely by the idea

of leaving votive offerings

in the cup-holes of the stone?…

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