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Rody Gorman

On a terrace between Macherados and Kiliomeno at the agetime of the parting of hours, what I make out is the (moon) light about the beach at Kalamaki and Laganas about the horizon to the rightnearsouth and across the Kyle of Ionia over there the moormountains and the rest of the Innerathome Hebrides.

As fastsoon as the sheetlightningopening stripappears from the west side here in the betweentwolights, the white houses fitreveal themselves – an apparitionperson might singsay that what he had was Ewan/Evander’s House and Alistair/Alexander’s House and the House of Hector MacInnes/Hector, son of Aneas.

Fosgladh
translated into English by the author

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