Potato Poem
Dear reader…
You already know
there’s never been
a poem as lovely
as a potato –
nor prose as flowing as a stream.
You know you can live on spuds.
Try swallowing a sonnet
or masticating a haiku.
So now you know.
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Notes:
(1) Photo by Deirdre O’Mahony
(2) Poem inspired by “IMMA Lawn. A Village Plot, Made with the Irish Loy Association while on a research residency for Grizedale Arts. Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin.
And by The art of potatoes Frank McNally, An Irishman’s Diary Irish Times May 25th 2016
I love potatoes 💜
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Jacqueline – click the link to Irish Times in Notes- you’ll like
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Wow! I didn’t know that 🙂 super cool French history and Irish history! Is that your sister too – Deirdre?
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Yes Jacqueline – Deirdre (Dee) is one of my two wonderful sisters
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