Wild, but Calm

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Claire O'Reilly used her granny's stick -
A crook-necked one - to snare the highest briars
That always grew the ripest blackberries.
When it came to gathering, Persephone
Was in the half-penny place compared to Claire.
She'd trespass and climb gates and walk the railway
Where sootflakes blew into convolvulus
And the train tore past with the stoker yelling
Like a balked king from his iron chariot.

-Seamus Heaney (from the poem Two Stick Drawings)

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Gorgeous.