Chopping by Medbh McGuckian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Close your eyes
Unwinding the bitter onion–
Its layers of uncertainty are limited,
Under brown paper its sealed heart sings
To the tune of a hundred lemons.

Today I am feeling up to it:
I bend my throat aside–
There is no pain, only the soft entrances
Again, again, the vegetable's
Finely numbered bones.

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MEDBH McGUCKIAN was born in 1950 Belfast where she lives with her family. Among the prizes she has won are The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and the Bass Ireland Award for Literature 1991.  She is the author of Venus and the Rain (1984), On Ballycastel Beach (1988),   Marconi's Cottage (Gallery, 1991), Captain Lavender (1995), and Selected Poems: 1978-1994 (1997).

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