Tuesday, October 10, 2006

News at Eleven: As Americans pass through "Anahorish 1944"

to assemble for Normandy, [Seamus] Heaney's anonymous narrator recalls a morning of pig slaughter, "sunlight and gutter-blood/Outside the slaughterhouse."

No one knew where they were headed, "like youngsters/As they tossed us gum and tubes of coloured sweets."

from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 'District and Circle' by Seamus Heaney

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