Paul Muldoon Horse Latitudes
The Outlier
I
In Armagh or Tyrone
I fell between two stones.
In Armagh or Tyrone
on a morning in June
I fell between two stones.
In Armagh or Tyrone
on a morning in June
in 1951
I fell between two stones.
In Armagh or Tyrone
on a morning in June
in 1951
I fell between two stones
that raised me as their own.
II
I had one eye, just one,
they prised and propped open.
I had one eye, just one,
they prised and propped open
like a Fomorian's.
I had one eye, just one,
they prised and propped open
like a Fomorian's
with a fire-toughened pine.
I had one eye, just one,
they prised and propped open
like a Fomorian's
so all I looked upon
would itself turn to stone.
Paul Muldoon
Horse Latitudes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Copyright © 2006 by Paul Muldoon. All n Boland
