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Making Poems: Four Color Plate Lithograph; Size 15" X 22" Image Size 18" X 12"
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Making Poems

Hermit on sand weaving straw 
Baskets I cast to the waves's 
Maw what I finish then 
Weave another out in 
Penny-wise sea wind

 The same childhood at the end 
Of the road as at the beginning

 The same heiroglyphic bird word

 Fish of the sea my work is for you
I made this poem for a thing to do

That it may tickle a salmon throat 
That an empty sea shell ear 
Hear its bell-tone note:

 The laugh-cry of some 'traveling man' 
Building mud towers in the sand!

 (Yes see how they shake and slant
Waiting for the waves to break 
Their imperfection and their want.)

 Padraic Fiacc

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