included in the chapbook published in Galicia in 2005
Go to bed, Michael,
or the monsters will come.
Say your prayers,
build yourself a wall.
Pull the blankets up
over your eyes.
Be silent down your burrow,
the night sky is stirring.
Go to sleep, Michael,
they will not disturb the
dead.
-----------------------------------
“There is an owl in my head”
said Joseph. “I am wise,
wisest of all creatures”.
“There is a tiger in my head”
said Paul. “I am fierce,
all creatures fear me”.
“A stag in mine”
said Thomas. “ I am
majestic,
admired by all”.
“My head is empty”
said Jim. “ a space
for all creatures to come
and go.”
