Monday, August 11, 2014

Half lit


Half lit
The lamp
Of poor
Mac schoolish
Ah!

Poorlined
Inbed (deade?)
Inna clood
Purly egjes
Grabbd buoy
Crabbe clawses
O mithercome
Meek me bedsoon
Cloody meerst
Hedout
Innasturm.

Denned thith
To wards
Worth sprung
Thith marshy
Hope
Haft lit
Aflit
Aforning
A tell, in mee
Be hold
He stood, stead he
May hap
Less hind
Hast hasting
Stuckin glenn
In hast a
Roeman sinks
Undearthy sunk.

Yet roe be tide!
Bucktide, aborning
Swum intide
Gold in hind
Thee off
Cloven finn
Of foamy moat
Innish spring
Stuckin mee
The zee, the zee
Antlertree!
 (The gold den
 Hind the zee).

Heer
Inter ceedes
A dram hee dreame
Bee donne
Wit troughs
Wit seames
And following
A’ swallowing
Deere holes
In sandy banks
Reterned.

Tis hi land
Lo!
Tis, tis
Mee buoy
O wenny wen
Ur keel crackd
Lo!

Denned
Hee slipt
Hee doon
He dune
Slippt down
Piping up
Sheer rises
Ploving doon.

Et dawn
He gaeled
Ugh!
Duskie droole
Tempest toast
Cork fugiting
Outee popt
Hee arked
Ajet
Denned inna
Marshy hope
Hee arked
Ahooft trough
Troo roe sprung.

Weir hee sprung
Cloven finnd
Den-scraped
A scree
Too trove a
Meer maid
Troo for thee
Shee swummin farre
Shee swummin lee
Praylick tonge
O! Sturmy tonge
Off lande
Frae cliffs
Frae firry fogge
Sheewunder
Aimless troo
Trawlee!


Heer inter
Ceede sant
Unter brook
Bee thist placed
A sayler bee
Charts doe
Waxen
Ill us straite
Donne saylers deaf
And siren (Eeeeee)
Too meery made
Thees maiden bee.

Pushoff!
Aye, land and
Whose bee
Hind
A gain
Istuckin spring
Pay sin in
The well he
Welly well!
Unter brook
Unter marsh
Hee ‘ope.

Forerun in wind
Hee barreld'hed (deade?)
Bee conning
Uposeidoon
Be stuckin well
Innispring
To seer a head
Wen seer is alles
Delvin round
Aporpoising
A delvin
Uppendoon.

At bottom be
Landsaken
Wee
(Delvin in
The whole
Inzee)
Landsaken
Wee.

Landhold?
Be hold
In ayelands
Mooven trees
Displace of crows
Nest starving
Tangld hornd
A candyll tree
Inna aim
Less zee.

Plodden inna
Glimmer zee
Cloven finnd
Tangld hornd
A candyll tree
To see aglast
Aye! Eynd
Lesse lee.

Mac schoolish
Indee eynd
Less zee.

Half lit
The lamp
Of poor
Mac schoolish
Ah!














Tom McGlynn
copyright 2014

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