Time and Place

• Living space : there are just

  Not enough straight lines
• Living space: beams balanced

  Crookedly on supports
• Living space: nails

  Clutch at open seams
• Living space: someone

  Has squeezed a living space
• Living space: even dared

  To place these eggs in a wire basket
• Living space: hung out over

  The edge of a slanted universe
• As imperceptibly as grief : the summer

  lapsed away
• As imperceptible as grief : to

  Seems like perfidy
• As imperceptible as grief : the morning

  Foreign shone — a courteous yet harrowing Grace
• As imperceptible as grief: our summer

  Made her light escape into the beautiful
• Death of a naturalist : all year the

  Fax dam festered in the heart of the townland
• death of a naturalist : daily it

  Sweltered in the punishing sun
• Death of a naturalist : I would fill

  jampotfulls of the jellied specks
• Death of a naturalist: how the mammy

  Frog laid hundreds of little head and this was frogspawn
• death of a naturalist : angry frogs

  Invaded the flax dam
• death of a naturalist : the slap

  And plop were obscene threats
• Hawk roosting: I sit in the

  Top of the wood , my eyes closed
• Hawk roosting : or in sleep

  rehearse perfect kills and eat
• hawk roosting : the airs buoyancy

  And the suns rays are to an advantage to me
• Hawk roosting: it took the

  Whole of Creation to produce my foot
• Hawk roosting: now I

  Hold Creation in my foot
• Hawk roosting: I kill

  Where I please because it is all mine
• Hawk roosting : the

  Allotment of death
• Hawk roosting : the sun is

  Behind me , nothing has changed since I began
• hawk roosting : I am going

  To keep things like this
• context of Living space

  Raises awareness on how different cultures (marginalise) live
• As imperceptible as grief - context

  Familiar with grief (lost 2 people close to her)

  shut herself away from society
• death of a naturalist - context

  focused on childhood - lived in rural areas

  left rural areas to live in Belfast

  (Ireland violence)
• Hawk roosting context

  Grew up during WW2 - tyrannical leaders (Hitler)

  fascinated by sublime