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From: "Jean Rice" <>
Subject: [IGW] "Everything Is Going To Be All Right" -- Derek MAHON (born Belfast 1941)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 12:48:35 -0800

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT

How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying
Everything is going to be all right.

-- Derek Mahon, born Belfast 1941

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