Skellig

5” x8”

Carborundum collograph with collage overlay. I recently attended a workshop at Ballinglen Center for the Arts in Ballycastle, Mayo, Ireland. The beauty of the Wild Atlantic Way will resonate within for some time!

Postscript

            – Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

And some time make the time to drive out west

Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightening of flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white

Their fully-grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
Useless to think you’ll park or capture it

More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.