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Saint Gobnait of the Honeybees
She’d have naught of silvery turnings like fish, / The Celtic knot of wedded, bedded love. / She stole away to the Arans, met a man...
The Mortal Longing After Loveliness
When Xerxes, king of Persia, was on the march, / He met a beauty, marvelous and fair, / And hung her round with costly ornaments, / Tasking a man to be her paladin...
Starting With a Sentence by Aidan Hart
Truth is truth wherever it is found, / In light-struck windowed hands of opal glass, / In pebbles left in homage on a grave...
The Dreamer as Architect
Last night in dreams, she lived a thousand years / And was the architect who made a house / That wandered from the mountains to the sea. ...
Cáer’s Dream
In dream, she fished with silk of swans, / Baited her hooks of hammered bronze / With rainbow strips of cuttlefish, / And might have paused to make a wish...
An Icon of St. Margaret
This gold and paint on board, the fillet in her hair— / I see resemblance, yes, a slantways glimpse of her...
