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"Even the marvellous
Implies no outcome other than to be amazing
And spectacular, but not especially to be good;
Not especially to leave an aftermath behind 
Seamless or unmarked, restored or as you were.
The touch of suffering is outrageous. Do not even ask
For a miracle. It will leave you changed for the rest of your days”
From ‘These Things’, p49
ISBN 9781911132677
Available here by Damian Smyth
Click on individual poetry titles below:
Downpatrick Races (2000) The Down Recorder (2004)
Lamentations (2010) Apparitions: A Hurricane (2013) Mesopotamia (2014)
English Street (2018)