The Ring of Kerry


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View from Staigue Stone Fort onto the Ring of Kerry, Ireland: photo by Christian Menz, 2002





The grandfather whistling in the chair a tune of Tralee or Killarney before
Brief sleep and dreams back into the Nineteenth Century
Biological interconnectedness over generations
A relief from being the police and from the poem not yet written
A spar to cling to at sea in the dark during wild storms off The End of Dingle








The End, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
: photo by Steve Ford Elliott, 2006

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Lakes of Killarney (from Ladies View), County Kerry, Ireland
: photo by Kglavin, 2005

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Lakes of Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
: photo by Kglavin, 2005


Note: "the poem not yet written": a temporary projection into the cerebrum of the Gaelic bard Uileog Ó Céirín, or Ulick Kerin (1791-1863), of County Kerry, who is supposed, in this imagination of the past, to have been an ancestor of the whistling grandfather