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…the sweaters of old Ireland!

…Aye – even at the bottom of the sea;
for grannies knit

the shrouds of grandson
Fishermen

who never learned to swim
(to keep the agony of drowning short).

And long after the eyes were gone
and fish explored

the geography of skull
the sweaters held

and told us who they were –
Cormac and Tom and even Donavan.

See how the stitches
knit the bones together.

Irish Sweaters

By Shirley Graves Cochrane
(1925 - 2015)

Later I did a

painting of this
red framed

window and sold
it.

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