Anam Cara

Contents

Cover

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Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

I

Air Holds Echo

Nowhere

Taken

After the Sea

Raven

Beannacht

November Questions

Uaigneas

Lull

Fossil

Woman and Steel

II

Hungers of Distance

Purgatorial

Exiled Clay

Instead of Kissing the Cross

Anything Can Come

Young Mind

Broken Moon

Expectation

Nothingness: The Secret of the Cross

Self-Distance

Ich wünsche mir

Cottage

The Voyage of Gentians

Betrayed by Light

Voices at the Funeral

i Body

ii Grave

iii Coffin

iv Forgetfulness

III

Clay Holds Memory

Exposed

Origins

Raid

Damage: A Conamara Cacophony

Gleninagh

Selves

Tropism

Outside Memory

Chosen

IV

Icons of Love

Nets

The Grief of Love

Invocation

Frail Shelter

Afterwards

Jealousy

Skeletal

Messenger of Sight

Moon Blessing

Nothing Else Matters

Love Notes

Found

From the Womb Before the Dawn

Conamara in Our Mind

Arrival

First lines

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