Irish Poem, worldwide relevance.

  • BearAnon
    12 years ago

    Just stumbled across this in an Irish poetry book I've been skimming through. Thought it should be posted here.

    Progress
    by Alan Gillis

    They say that for years Belfast was backwards
    and it's great now to see some progress.
    So I guess we can look forward to taking boxes
    from the earth. I guess that ambulances
    will leave the dying back amidst the rubble
    to be explosively healed. Given time,
    one hundred thousand particles of glass
    will create impossible patterns in the air
    before coalescing into the clarity
    of a window. Through which, a reassembled head
    will look out and admire the shy young man
    taking his bomb from the building and driving home.