Even If The Last Move Did Not

Memory Has Always Been Fundamental For Me. In Fact, Remembering What I Had Forgotten Is The Way Most Of The Poems Get Started.

Once I Was On The Job, Once I Had Got Started, I Felt Safe Enough, But The Anticipation Made Me Tense.

Don't Be Surprised If I Demur, For, Be Advised My Passport's Green.

Best To Say That Once A Poem Is Finished I Trust It To Make Its Way, And I Trust Readers Will Find Their Way To It And Through It, If The Thing Has Got Itself Rightly Expressed.

The Ireland I Now Inhabit Is One That These Irish Contemporaries Have Helped To Imagine.