Rest in peace, Seamus
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope…. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.”
—Seamus Heaney
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
—from Heaney's Digging