Storm on the Island

• “We are bombarded with the empty air“
• ”The wind dives and strafes invisibly“
• “Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs”
• “But there are no trees, no natural shelter“
• “Forgetting that it pummels your house too”
• “Can raise a tragic chorus in gale“
• “This wizened earth has never troubled us“
• Who wrote Storm on the Island?

  Seamus Heaney
• “Exploding comfortably“
• “Spits like a tamed cat

  Turned savage“