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Burren Stone

John T. Hitchner

Upon the old land
at the edge of the sea,
high tide washes over stones,
withdraws,,
then washes over them again:
faces with mouths ragged,
eyes empty casks,
hands of hunters and kings
who struck fires,
built towers and tombs
in fear of enemies and gods,
and kept watch over the sea—
the eternal sea in its eternal mission
of ebb and flow, wash and cleanse,
upon the stones,
the still and eternal stones.

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