is interesting no matter what anyone says.
Limits
.
So high
in their leafy silence
over Kells, over Durrow
as the Vikings
raged south -
the old monks
made the alphabet
wild:
they dipped iron
into azure and
indigo: they gave strange
wings to their o's
and e's: their vowels
clung on with
talons and the thin,
ribbed wolves
which had gone north
left their frozen winters
and were lured back
to their consonants.
-Eavan Boland