By Brigit’s Day
milk
retreats to the cow’s horns
from
Christmas to Imbolc—
with
your return
the
cow gives milk again
wild
birds mate
jackdaw
and grey crow
the
hen’s egg brooded
hatches
safe and strong
nothing
in water
or
on the ground
is
not thinking of propagation
the
farmer knows it
if
he has not written his name
on
the land by Brigit’s day—
his
work is late
Copyright Casey June Wolf (2013)
Source: The Festival of Brigit, Séamas Ó Catháin
(1995)
