‘THREE ORDINARY GHOSTS NEAR ORMSTON HOUSE’ They were just three ordinary ghosts that I met, going about their ghostly business- so was I surprised? Well: I was surprised that I wasn’t more surprised by meeting the three ordinary ghosts. I guess they were not at all spooky – No silly sheets over them with burnt-out…
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Brendan Hayes – Reflections on Street Line Critics
Brendan Hayes – Reflections on Street Line Critics Rain pelleting the front window; the lonesome wail of the midday Angelus bell Monday; I don’t know what to say–I think of wet slippery streets that cannot be scrawled with chalk. I want to get down and dirty by the river of no return; with the…
Brendan Hayes on Mulgrave Street
Mulgrave Street: A Drinking Song It starts at the Horse and Hound, And ends at the Cemetery, In between, There is the mental home, The jail and Jerry O’D’s. – Brendan Hayes Photographs by Natalie Woociker:
Brendan Hayes on Mulgrave Street outside St. Joseph’s Hospital
This is not the writing on the wall. This is not the writing on the wall. This was not the predicted end. – Brendan Hayes Photographs by Natalie Woociker:
Brendan Hayes on Clancy Strand
Brendan Hayes on Clancy Strand . I see the girl dancing by the river leaping the gaps in the wall but talking much too fast How can she make sense of it all . or find the time and space to heal . But here I kneel and pray and hope she’ll feel happiness some…
Brendan Hayes on O’ Callaghan Strand
There’s a stone and its black and green and it lies on the riverbed, With neither eyes to see nor tears that can be shed, Yet the light of a million moons its drank searching for the dead. – Brendan Hayes (18-07-2013) . This is not the end of the the line__________________ | |…