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Master Clay: Four Color Plate Lithograph; Size 15" X 22" Image Size 18" X 12"
$250
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MASTER CLAY

On top of the mountain, a school,
a monastery... 
I take the road up to the bells.
(The bells are a childhood memory!) 
Monks are at prayer. Birds at laughter.
Bells peal in still blue air.
I am afraid of the wall of woods though
Afraid of the sea below, the shadow:
(Lest I fall!)
'Come back down, you!'
Waves roar in blackening sky
'You will die for you carry your grave with you
And many's the worm!' I settle in my little cell.
It is not home: Sea wind
Comes in cracks in my skull...
I climbed the whole way up the mountain to
an open wound rooted in the dead
In the ground is my very own
Clump of slime green clay
Might not have ever been or
Having been is now but more!

Padraig Fiacc