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Mirror Mirror on the StrandAuthor(s): Francis HarveySource: Irish Pages, Vol. 2, No. 2, The Earth Issue (Autumn/Winter, 2004), p. 65Published by: Irish Pages LTDStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30022016 .

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IRISH PAGES

LUGWORM

If I could join together these pieces of string heaped on the beach I'd have a line

long enough to fly a kite to heaven or plumb the ocean's deepest abysses.

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE STRAND

Here I am again space-walking through the sky and the clouds looking at myself looking for words to describe what the tide has provided for the vanity of me and a flock of preening birds.

HAREBELLS

On a sunny day of late summer a flight of estuary waders

preparing for touchdown

warily circles the machair confused by a quivering array of blue windsocks indicating a steady force six blowing from every conceivable point of the compass.

Francis Harvey, a poet and novelist, lives in Co Donegal His most recent collection is The Boa

Island Janus (The Dedalus Press, 1996) An extract of his unpublished novel The Diarists

appeared in the second issue of IRISH PAGES (Vol 1, No 2)

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