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By Caoilinn Hughes
With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns medical and poetic venturing. during this notable debut assortment she specializes in moments of discovery, from the 1st managed nuclear response to the form of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment sector. those are epiphanies with results
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I could not come to his aid for dread. It was not a sin but a precaution: the private war-drum of palpitation; fizzing sweat glands portending chemical warfare; oesophagus closing in on itself to the size of a straw; tongue parching to blotting paper, drawing out the nerve. It was our Aunt’s Alsatian that attacked: its ancestral wolf sensed a threat, brought its paws to the plastic gunfight my brother and cousin enacted. Bang, bang, you’re dead had real-life, bacteria-lined effect. ‘Cowering on the ground and urinating oneself is advisable,’ a postwoman told me, if one encounters a Rottweiler – accidentally encroaches upon its postbox kingdom.
To discover the atom is a start – to know what it means; its particle trinity that has oceans cleaving to the tilted earth resisting the moon’s recurrent invite; miraculous photosynthesis, which is bodiless, yet we grope about for its photon torso. If I reassess the sum of its parts, does the daisy chain become divinity, since the electron and its positron hold the pattern of our future infinitesimally? This is more modellable than we would like to concede. Its Latin name, a propos, means pretty-everlasting.
But nothing weighed the same as the stolen marbles that gave me unbuyable glee and bellyaches when I swallowed them experimentally. 40 Communion Afternoon I would have outsmarted them or, at a minimum, flicked their coins back like sharp-edged playing cards or swung the rosary beads like a Filipino Balisong had I not vomited spaghetti alphabet all over the spring-time grass and fake-white silk and girlhood; disgusted at the injustice of being small and atheist and inarticulate. 41 Cynophobia It did not start when my brother held his face in his palms like a shredded piñata.