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EuropeAuthor(s): Sarah MaguireSource: Irish Pages, Vol. 2, No. 2, The Earth Issue (Autumn/Winter, 2004), p. 122Published by: Irish Pages LTDStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30022038 .

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IRISH PAGES

under the light paling fence and is

gone:

EUROPE

Merely an idea bruising the far horizon, as a cold mist tightens into rain -

but at dusk we still wait

by the Bay of Tangier, on the old city walls, gazing northwards

till the night comes on, and a necklace of lights gathers the throat of the sea.

The young men burn -

lonely, intent on resolving that elusive littoral

into a continent of promises kept, clean water, work. If they stare hard enough, perhaps

it will come to them. Each night, they climb these crumbling ramparts

and face north like true believers, while the lighthouse of Tarifa blinks

and beckons,

unrolling its brilliant pavement across the pitiless Straits.

LANDSCAPE, WITH DEAD SEA

Flat out on brine at the bottom of the world -

not one wisp of cirrus

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