storm on the island

• "We are prepared: we build our houses squat,"
• "Sink walls in rock"
• "you know what I mean"
• "you can listen to the thing you fear"
• "pummels your house too"
• "Exploding comfortably"
• "spits like a tame cat

  Turned savage."
• "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear"
• Purpose

  • written about the Troubles in Ireland
  • futility of war
  • the conflict is about humanity not nature