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Hugh Fox


Never

It’s not that I ever really left
but like the whole Parish turned
Chicago into Athenry, Dingle Bay,
Limerick, Cork, Dublin, remembering
and wanting to revive the (never
really dead), In Nomine Everyone
who slipped out of sight, but never
mind, the nuns and then the brothers,
Jesuits,no meat on Fridays, Mass every
morning, Jesus coming with us
through the seasons that died
and resurrected, still waiting for a
death that was just really just a
beginning, a sense of tribe no
matter where, always another
face/grace to match your
writing-poems-on-the-Athenry-
sand-and-then-standing-back
and-watching-the waves-wash
them-away but never your always
never-having-really-left
                          reality.