Well Offering
deep
deep and black
the shaft of your great well
sinks through
yielding earth to touch
the sidhe
bronze
bronze and fine
the offerings to
goddess Brig
forged and split and
given to your world
below
below the
shifting winds
and rain-wet fog
below the bawling
calf
and peeling yew
far below
a goddess hears
and listens
we cast our
bounty
deep into your
well
Image: "St. Brigid's Well, Armagh." Vintage Irish postcard.
This poem is mentioned in a post on my general interest Brigit blog, Brigit's Sparkling Flame here: Reading to Brigit.
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