FIACHRA
MACFIACH AT PLAY
A striking
resemblance to Ian Macpherson has been noted in one of the
more scurrilous English dailies. The implication - that all
Irish people look the same - is deeply racist.
Is this political incorrectness gone
mad?!
LINES FOR SEAMUS HEANEY
My mother's plump hand grips the
neck
Of the
plunger. Water
Swirls and
squelches
Slops
Plops and
sluices.
The plunger
plummets,
Hammers home with a plump slap
And sucks itself stuck.
My mother heaves.
Strains.
Throbs.
The plunger taunts. Hard.
Erect.
Clamped.
My mother, stung, grits her gums,
Pulls
And PLUCK! - the plunger unplumps with a slurp and a suck.
My mother, spent
Sits, sighs and sleeps.
I watch her wilt and sag,
Her bulges droop
And in her sleep
She softly
Plumps her blubber.