Smithereens Press Chapbooks SP14 - The Lighthouses by Daragh Breen | Page 26

down through the rains it slumbers in to Dingle Harbour, and past the
rusting guns and shipwrecked revolutions of overgrown Smerwick
Harbour, and 12 minutes later it is lifting the dead surface of Bantry
Bay, and 5 minutes later it raises the dying trawlers of
Castletownbere with its twice daily, drowning echoes, and 2 minutes
later it passes Schull, shouldering itself on past the white wingless
angel that mourns over Baltimore, 3 minutes later it is spilling fish
through Kinsale, before it splashes beneath the watchful glare of
Ballycotton Lighthouse, having flooded past the industrial ghost pylons
and steel ruins of Cork Harbour’s forgotten industries, and on it pours,
on and on

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