The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“So you might as well live / and you might as well love.” — Pádraig Ó Tuama
The One Thing by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“And he must have found a little window, / opened it – and shouted through it – / that saving sound that saved me.” — Pádraig Ó Tuama
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
“To feel abandoned is to deny / the intimacy of your surroundings.” — David Whyte
Once by Eavan Boland
"I do not want us to be immortal or unlucky. / To listen for our own death in the distance."
Detail by Eamon Grennan
"I began to understand / how a poem can happen: you have your eye on a small / elusive detail, pursuing its music, when a terrible truth / strikes
This Moment by Eavan Boland
“A woman leans down to catch a child / who has run into her arms / this moment.” — Eavan Boland