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I wrote a poem, which was a
bridge between my experiences

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in Ireland and my home
experience of growing up

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in the Northwest.

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And this occurred
because my sister

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who's 13 years younger than
I am joined me in Ireland.

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And we got to know each
other all over again there.

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Because we had another
neutral ground I suppose,

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we made this great hitchhiking
tour all around south

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of Ireland.

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And then I said goodbye
to her at Dun Leary,

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where the boat takes off.

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And at some point,
we realized that we

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had a very special
language that was

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composed of all the things
we knew about our home.

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And this was a very
precious to us.

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So I wanted to write
a poem for her.

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My book by the way
is dedicated to her.

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This is called Still
Moment at Dun Leary.

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You crossed the ramp.

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It's sure suspension
above the blue rope net.

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That means water.

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Not seen for this
nearness of ship to dock.

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Now, it is below
you, a channel you

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will think of as an ocean, where
we met once and talked back

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into a lost continent childhood,
and a single house that

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keeps us sisters.

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You were right to
call it a language.

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The way I will know
that tree blocking

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the view of the Peninsula
and the bluff dropping away

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each year.

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So the house must stand
with conviction flanked

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by the blue spruce, the swing
set waiting for our brother's

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children.

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Already, we are more together
for how the house looks back

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on us.

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Through the glass, your
face will float away

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like a ship of its
own over the boundary

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that knows with us the world
is steady in another view.

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Look back.

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There is a woman beside me.

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Younger, older waving
as you are waving.

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Yet with your blond hair, wound
and pinned into this distance.

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