Smithereens Press Chapbooks SP8- Dordéan, do Chroí - A Hummingbird, your Heart | Page 17

Solace

Under midnight’s moonlit mist,
she returns from distant lands.
I recognise your birthmark,
small warbler.
I long for you to return to me.

In Irish folklore, sedge warblers heard singing at midnight were said to
be voices of stillborn infants who had returned to soothe their mothers.
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