is remembered diving into water; but the opening couplet makes it ambiguous as to whether this is a real or a metaphorical event: "Over the inver the universe blows--/father dives into the hereafter". Voices from the shore try to locate him--"Where is here?"--and the piece (and the first half of the book) end with a suggestive Gaelic proverb, "Is fánach an áit a bhfaighfeá gliomach" ("It's a queer place you would find a lobster").
from The Guardian: A place of casual collisions
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