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| The Leaving | 11 | |
| Her Dream | 13 | |
| Zugzwang | 14 | |
| Buying Winkles | 17 | |
| The Pattern | 19 | |
| Ard Fheis | 23 | |
| Return and No Blame | 25 | |
| Two Buck Tim from Timbuctoo | 27 | |
| Reading the Sky | 28 | |
| Elegy for a Child | 29 | |
| Child Burial | 31 | |
| No Go Area | 33 | |
| Her Heroin Dream | 34 | |
| The Man Who Lives in the Clouds | 36 | |
| The Dark Twin | 38 | |
| Lullaby | 40 | |
| The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks | 42 | |
| Fruit | 45 | |
| Nightwalk: Effernagh to Eslin | 46 | |
| Home by Starlight | 48 | |
| You Open Your Hands to Me | 50 | |
| Coda | 52 | |
| The Man who was Marked by Winter | 54 | |
| Insomnia | 56 | |
| Three Paintings of York Street: Before the Pubs Close | 57 | |
| Three Paintings of York Street: Woman Found Dead behind Salvation Army Hostel | 58 | |
| Three Paintings of York Street: Children of York Street at Play in the College of Surgeons Carpark | 59 | |
| My Love about his Business in the Barn | 60 | |
| Mysteries of the Home: Well | 62 | |
| Mysteries of the Home: Queen | 63 | |
| Mysteries of the Home: Hermit | 64 | |
| Mysteries of the Home: King | 65 | |
| Mysteries of the Home: Seed | 66 |
Anonymous
Posted January 28, 2011
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Overview
In language as brightly and carefully crafted as the sewing the mother aspires to teach her daughter in "The Pattern," Paula Meehan fashions complex images of place and displacement, of joyous moments of discovery trimmed with bitterness, of tragedy inevitable as nightfall, and the repose that accompanies acceptance of loss. A few are hard to read, they are so griefladen; yet they leave us with a sense of release into a deeper understanding of the human heart. Playful lovers, lovers' cruelties, the divertissements of the sexual revolution - her treatment of these subjects in direct, lighthearted, courageous terms has earned her a vivid reputation as a speaker of truths that all women, and honest men, recognize and respond ...