A Bit o' Bob in Dublin
A poem and photograph from my latest book, Ireland, Place out of Time (2017). Order your copy from Weeping Willow Books.
A Bit o' Bob in Dublin
We found the house on Ranelagh Road,
three-story brick building,
a preschool and Torc Feed and Grain
Sprinkled his sister’s ashes
on the threshold, a link from
California to their Irish roots
The house served his great-grandfather well,
until he, like so many others, fled
to the promised land
He had a “bit o’ bob” they told us,
given its once fancy address.
We breathed in its now bare
façade, felt its pull,
listened as it called
from the deep earth