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French Church StreetAuthor(s): Thomas McCarthySource: New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), p. 54Published by: University of St. Thomas (Center for Irish Studies)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20557609 .

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Fil?ocht Nua: New Poetry

FRENCH CHURCH STREET

We go the way of all Huguenots tonight.

The streets on fire

with the red glow of October. Unexpected light

follows us

like a foreign skill with cloth. Red sails

of early evening

tack homeward. The very stars are Huguenot.

WATERSTONES, SATURDAY NIGHT

We read the elemental Odes of of Pablo Neruda,

five poets

of the South. In my old book, a press cutting

of Santiago station.

Chile so far away, only rain with seven names,

our unhoping song,

weeps upon the windows of Patrick Street.

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