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	Personal Helicon

Annakie

12-5-2006 12:44 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/edbe7978-7286-4959-9d5a-e53c973c446d/09332616-A66A-466C-9593-65C7948A7D01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/personal_helicon.php" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/personal_helicon.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ibiblio.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/personal_helicon.php"><DIV class="poem-title">Personal Helicon</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/personal_helicon.php"><DIV class="by-line">By <A href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/heaney.php">Seamus Heaney</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/heaney/personal_helicon.php"><DIV class="poem"><DIV>
for Michael Longley
</DIV>
<BR />As a child, they could not keep me from wells
<BR />And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
<BR />I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
<BR /><DIV>Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss.
</DIV>

<BR />One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top.
<BR />I savoured the rich crash when a bucket
<BR />Plummeted down at the end of a rope.
<BR /><DIV>So deep you saw no reflection in it.
</DIV>

<BR />A shallow one under a dry stone ditch
<BR />Fructified like any aquarium.
<BR />When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch
<BR /><DIV>A white face hovered over the bottom.
</DIV>

<BR />Others had echoes, gave back your own call
<BR />With a clean new music in it. And one
<BR />Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall
<BR /><DIV>Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection.
</DIV>

<BR />Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
<BR />To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
<BR />Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
<BR /><DIV>To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
</DIV>

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