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Bright Saturday in Spring
and there, for once, the whole of it
and, Lord, I have no camera.

Outside the church
a wedding party waits.
A Mass is still in progress.

Before the wedding can begin
ten men, in files of five,
must carry out the corpse.


Donal Mahoney
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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