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Fruits of the SeaAuthor(s): Francis HarveySource: Irish Pages, Vol. 2, No. 2, The Earth Issue (Autumn/Winter, 2004), p. 64Published by: Irish Pages LTDStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30022013 .

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IRISH PAGES

SANDHOPPERS

A cloudless blue sky and the patter of raindrops that, no matter

how long they fall, will never wet a single one of these windrows of seaweed drying in the sun.

BARNACLES

I've found a vast mountain landscape of extinct volcanoes, each one the shape of a cone, on this tiny seashore stone.

FRUITS OF THE SEA

Look how today on a distant sandbank in the estuary where clouds are shoaling the seals are curled up like black bananas.

THE MATHEMATICIANS

God, you said, with a sweep of your hand

taking in the big picture of sky and sea, had to be a mathematician but I was looking at the small picture as the marram grass bent to its task of drawing circles and half circles on the sand as perfect as the ones I used to draw at school with compasses.

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