Anahorish
LISA HANNIGAN · At Swim 2016 · Track 08 of 11
Music: Lisa Hannigan · Lyrics: Seamus Heaney
My "Place Of Clear Water" The first hill in the world Where springs washed into The shiny grass
And darkened cobbles In the bed of the lane Anahorish, soft gradient Of consonant, vowel-meadow
After-image of lamps Swung through the years On winter evenings With pails and barrows
Those mound-dwellers Go waist-deep in mist To break the light ice At wells and dunghills