Tara via Holyhead

riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s,
from swerve of shore and
bend of bay brings us by
some strange sort of circle.

Red houses with water-pipes
covered in rust must have greenhouses
out back: tall grass growing over
old flowerpots and strange metal
tools in the ground.

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Fall in love with the green-hilled
country. Fall in love with the
waves on the islands. Fall in love with
the fishing nets, the romanticism of war,
the high-stepping dancers.
Fall in love with memories.

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Let’s go the way he told us. Let’s leave
the country to go back in time. We’ll fly
away with our waxwings. We can swim.

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We’ll be able
to live, to err,
to fall, to triumph,
to recreate life
out of life.

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Tara via Holyhead is only
a way a lone a last a loved a long
way
away.

Author notes

Citations:
"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's from swerve of shore and bend of bay brings us by" is the opening sentence of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

"a way a lone a last a loved a long" is the closing sentence of Finnegan's Wake. The book ends with the word "the" and begins in the middle of the sentence.

Clearly wanted to be all "I'm gonna be obnoxious and write a book in a language I invented and because that's not annoying enough, I'm gonna start with the end of the sentence and end with the beginning so you'll never really be done reading it!"
...or maybe that's just the impression that I got from it, haha.

"to live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life" is from (Joyce again, what a surprise) Portrait of the Author as a Young Man.