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Eugene O’Connell was born near Kiskeam in northwest Cork in 1951. He has published a number of chapbooks, one full collection of poems One Clear Call (Bradshaw Books 2003) and one book of translations, Flying Blind (Southword Editions), which was volume 12 of the Cork European City of Culture Translation Series. Diviner, a new collection of his poems, was published by Three Spires Press in 2009. He is editor of The Cork Literary Review.
Habit
Someone had thrown out the cross That stood in the middle of the enclosure At Gougane Barra, and had a teak Copy put in its place. The people Still stuck pennies into the old cross So it grew a copper skin that stood After the wood had rotted. The habit Trickled on to nearby branches that Were punctured as far as they could reach With whatever coins they had to hand, And visitors coming to photograph the Object of devotion wondered at people Who put their money into such a practice.
©2010 Eugene O'Connell
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Author Links O'Connell at Poetry International Web Irish Times review of O'Connell's Diviner O'Connell in the MLC Writers Index
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