Walk through a legible remnant,
A repository of archaic knowledge,
A stratum of linguistic culture,
Inscriptions on monuments,
Fragments of statuary,
Chambered cairns inscribed with
ciphers,
Orphaned and broken tomb pediments,
A text of gesture, line and
ornament,
A great book ripped out by time
Written in moss and Ogham
script
Saying care, closeness,
protectiveness, affection.
Traveling in the rain and the
sun,
Past famine grounds, sepulchres
and silent walls,
A landscape strewn with memory.
See Sheela Na Gig in a green lichen,
Vegetation’s biotic motions
Breathing human passion in verdure.
Walk the Atlantic coastline,
Erosion, granite cliffs and
bog pits,
Fragmentary, unfinished nature,
utopian promise,
The murmur of history, of green
ruins,
Bays, inlets, peninsulas,
islands and headlands,
Millennia of decaying plant
matter,
Waterlogged soil erasing field
walls,
Passage, portal, court and
wedge tombs
Announce I was here, I am here,
An intangible presence in
granite,
Speech emanates from the stones.
