County Meath, Sunday, 31st July 2022…

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The dowdiest of the three Boyne Monuments

but, in some ways, the friendliest.

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No time restrictions,

no imminent threat

of film-show dread,

no waiting bus,

full of chattering strangers…

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Just the site itself

and Ireland’s wild, wild nature.

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The mythology for this site tells of a druid

and his sister spelling the sun to shine

while all the men of Ireland

were engaged in its construction.

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When the two magicians slept together

the spell was broken, and darkness descended.

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Coitus and these sites,

it seems, are inextricably linked…

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