Haiku from the say-nothing place (2003)
a batch of haiku
catalogues our journey – here
with some photographs
Irish health warning:
perspective limits paper
(necessarily)
A briefing paper on Northern Ireland

you can’t grow palm trees
on some County Antrim coast
ecumenism?
it’s a small country
everyone’s on a network
and you can do that!

for each statelet, a
constitutional colour
Do I have to choose?
‘Corrymeela’ means
hill of honey, harmony;
or turn on the road
can you write a poem,
man, to your X chromosome –
perhaps a love poem?

I look for a day
when the remaining ‘trouble’
will be those short skirts!
my immune system
like the England football team
is winning just now
a time of silence
to give thanks for the food now
Corrymeela style

a well-pulled Guinness
in a half-litre glass, and
costing five euros

dear Doctor Bob Purdie for
arranging the trip
(first published in the St Columba’s Church newsletter)
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