Day 30

 Legend 

Day 30

Legend 

Your Man, like Oisin, son of Fionn McCool,

returned from exile from the isle

to an age of priests and dying magic

to a bleaker shore

In the Puffin book of Irish myths and legends,

this is the saddest and the last,

the bowed man frail as coppiced trees,

his youth falling like pale leaves

And see him, forgetting himself and his youth,

forgetting himself and wonder,

the irresistible tide of the dividing sea,

the long-stranded swimmer