One Year After Poem by Máire Mhac an tSaoi

One Year After



I arrange my memory in readiness for the grave,
Put spices in her shroud and silver coins;
The snow is still on the cemetery ridge;
I lie down beside the body on my bed.

Translation: 2011, Louis de Paor

Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
poem poems memory silver snow
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