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Siobhán Keane
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Post by Siobhán Keane

Brigid is a goddess of poetry among her other trades, and every so often I wake with a line that doesn't feel like mine. Last night's: 'The well remembers what the bucket forgets.'

I keep a pencil by the bed now, not a pen, because pens die at 3am and pencils don't. Wrote it on the back of the electric bill.

No idea yet what the rest of the poem is. I'm in no rush. She's never once handed me the whole thing at once.

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  1. Gwen Morgan

    We'd call that awen arriving. Same fire, different hearth. That line is gorgeous.

  2. Grace Adeyemi

    Pencils over pens at 3am is a truth every night-praying person learns eventually. What a line to wake up holding.

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