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July 13, 2006

Cowboys on Holiday:Ireland

It's nearly as hot here as it is at home, but we have found the pubs and the seashore, if not the salmon. There are very many cattle here, but almost all dairy animals in rock-walled pastures. Our first morning as we waited for the ferry across the Shannon estuary at Killimer, the local herd came by and stopped to snack on the Texaco station pansies. If I can discover how to download images from my camera I'll post some photos soon.

July 7, 2006

Miguel, July

Breeze blows across the meadow
Deep in ryegrass, bluestem, fescue.
An ocean of softness bending to the wind's touch.

The waving grass
conceals his journey
across the field as he changes water,
A tiny figure
Wading to his shoulders in meadow hay,
A ripple sliding
Across all things standing still.

He surfaces,
The flash of his shovel blade
Like a fish jumping in a green sea.