Death of A naturalist - Seamus Heaney

• 'All year the flax-dam flestered in the heart'
• 'Bubbles gargled delicately'
• 'But the best of all was the warm thick slobber'
• 'The one hot day when fields were rank'
• 'A coarse croaking that I had not heard before'
• 'I sickened , turned and ran'
• 'That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it'