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Tom Sleigh Reads Seamus Heaney

The New Yorker: Poetry

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The Man of the Seas by Shemashini Anda, Read Here to Day by Tom Sleigh

Shemashine, another genius, takes up this image from a robert louis stevenson. And he refers to him lying there on the sand - exactly. A birch tree planted 20 years ago, comes between the irish sea and me at the attic skylight. It's not that i can't imagine still, that slight untoward rupture and world tilt as a wind freshened and the anchor weighed. The ship aground, the canted mast far out above a sea floor where striped fish pass and shoals.

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