Monday, June 6, 2022

FROM PRATIK'S ARCHIVES : IRISH POET GERARD BEIRNE's POEM, " Vision of the Other World"

 

GERARD BEIRNE

 

Vision of the Other World

(Inspired by the works of don Francisco de Quevedo)

 


Astrologers, alchemists, crack-brained fools.

Petty-foggers cutting thongs out of other men’s leather,

 

boring their noses with hot irons, biting their nails to the quick.

Gawdy coxcombs and hob-nailed boots, scythes and sheep-hooks.

 

Contented cuckolds with pincers, crane-bills, scissors, saws.

Bare-necked women and all sorts of gee-gaws.

 

Jilts, cheats, picklocks, trepanners, tooth-drawers

picking a quarrel with their gums. Rooks and jackdaws,

 

sons of whores, crook-fingered and baker-legged, cramp-jawed

knaves and fools with their tongues steeped in oil.

 

Catch-poled blockheads.

The bones I speak of are dead.

 

Gerard Beirne teaches on the BA Writing and Literature Program, IT Sligo. He has published two collections of poetry and four books of fiction. He has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award,  the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards. 

 

 


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