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  Fishermen at Ballyshannon
Netted an infant last night
Along with the salmon.
An illegitimate spawning,

A small one thrown back
To the waters. But I'm sure
As she stood in the shallows
Ducking him tenderly

Till the frozen knobs of her wrists
Were dead as the gravel,
He was a minnow with hooks
Tearing her open.

She waded in under
The sign of the cross.
He was hauled in with the fish.
Now limbo will be

A cold glitter of souls
Through some far briny zone.
Even Christ's palms, unhealed,
Smart and cannot fish there.

Seamus Heaney


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  Ben Dover  (12/23/2008 3:41:00 PM)

hahahahahahahahah at the comment bellow
heaney really needs to get out more
GAY RIGHTS!
  Kellie Sheridan  (6/14/2008 3:24:00 AM)

my favourite poem. I studied Heany in High School and this poem has stayed with me ever since. Visually rich and emotionally powerful. Perfection.
  Nathalie Reese  (4/6/2005 1:45:00 PM)

this poem is one of heaneys best. it changed the way i think about lots of things. how we are stuck in a endless cycle of being, how humanity will never stop destroying each other. and because of these things, christ palms will remain unhealed and he will never be able to rest. christs dreams of peace will never be fufilled because people keep committing these atrocities in his name. i am not a religious person.

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