Awareness

'When all this is over,' said the swineherd,

'I mean to retire, where

Nobody will have heard about my special skills

And conversations is mainly about the weather.

I intend to learn to make how to make coffee, at least as well

As the Portuguese lay-sister in the kitchen

And polish the brass fenders every day.

I want to lie awake at night

Listening to cream crawling to the top of the jug

And the water lying soft in the cistern . . .

(Spirituality: quote. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, 'Swineherd').