CROSSING IRELAND: "ON LEAVING ÉIRE" by ANGELA ALAIMO O'DONNELL

The eleventh of twelve poems in Angela Alaimo O’Donnell’s series. Click “Crossing Ireland” for the opening essay.  More about Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.

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ON LEAVING ÉIRE

She is all blue, air & earth, sea & sky.

She is bog, the color of ruin.

She is a long song across the water.

 

I don’t belong.

I could make my self a life there.

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