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It is wild in Killadoon.
\nThe waves roar at you.
\n‘You have to do something,’
\nEugene the horse man told us.
\n‘You have to get out and do something here.
\nYou can’t just be sitting in, no matter the weather.’
\n 
\nA man stood in a small field, watching his cows feed.
\nHis elbows rested on the stone wall.
\nHis blue tractor sang Dolly Parton.
\nA bird hung upside down on the wire fence.
\nOne claw still hooked and bloody.
\nWe undid its tiny ankle then laid it down
\nfor a comfortable death.
\n 
\nSnipes slid in the local marsh. Sheep abandoned their wool
\nin grass verges. A man with a car and a dog at a tiny cross
\nroads above the shore.
\nCountry music skidded into the air.
\nThe dog licked my shins, my shoes my fingers.
\n‘He smells your own,’ the man said.
\nHe ran his gaze over us. We were wind-sozzled, red and happy.
\n‘On holidays, are you?’ he said.
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Later that evening a man from East London holds court
\nin the hotel bar. He reminds everyone that he used to be
\nfrom around here.
\nHe still knows everyone, he says.
\nHe winks at the girl serving drinks.
\nHer sister married someone he knows.
\nHis voice picks out memories to tell.
\nHe ran there. He hunted there.
\nHe\u2019ll never come back.
\n 
\nWe were cut off from the world.
\nDidn’t look at TV or listen to the radio.
\nRead Rilke and walked five miles in the evening.
\nTravelling back we met a French man in a red car
\nin the hollowed gulp of Doo Lough valley .
\n‘What’s wrong?’ we ask.
\n‘Nothing,’ he says. He waves a hand outside his window.
\n‘Just looking at the moutains and the pretty ladies.’
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3<\/p>\n

Later we laugh at his strange grey curling hair.
\nHis red car and his distrustworthy face,
\nBut he had been quite normal, and in the end
\nhe was followed by string of French cyclists
\nthen a large truck whose driver hooted loud
\ninto the lough where people had died
\n 
\nlong ago with grass in their mouths,
\nsince visiting English gentlemen had
\ndecided not to feed them, but monitored
\ninstead how the bodies still gathered
\ngreen spit then drifted into the black water,
\nand sank under the lips of waves.<\/p>\n

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