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Remembering Seamus Heaney

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Remembering Seamus Heaney

13 April, 1939 - 30 August, 2013

Larry G. Maguire
Aug 30, 2023
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Digging, by Seamus Heaney

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.

The coarse b…

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