Bog Medicine
Drink these star-leafed nettles
and keep in your purse a fern.
To become invisible, say your harm
to the hill.
Tis hill is pagan.
Tis hill is Hill.
It will answer in bog-tongue
and occasional fire,
burning back the earth
along the heather-stream
despite bald heels of rock,
despite the kissy mink,
despite a saintly air
until the stream runs dark
with what needs
to blacken out of you.
ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN is a poet from North West Donegal. She is the author of Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) and Town (The Salvage Press, 2018). In 2019 she wbecame the Commissioned Writer at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and a Writer In Residence at Maynooth University, Kildare.
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