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Education Matters Online
Feature
Volume 2, Issue 1: November 5, 2003
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To Dermot Francis O'Flynn
By David J. Paul, Westminster S.S. |
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We will
never hear your voice again.
You’re gone.
Absent. That fine old teacher’s heart
pumped your brain
to death, hemispheres awash
in galleries of red,
but they kept you going
until your daughters
came to say goodbye
and then, let go,
with a final breath,
you
and your playful mind dissolved
as quietly
as a looted library,
ideas
and their lightning connections
gone.
Yes, your sweet-wise, lilting-Irish voice
is stilled.
But when you crab-walked across the floor
oh how
the kindergarten kids laughed and
loved you–
everybody’s white-haired grand-dad.
And how
you loved the word when it flew upon the wing.
(In memory of Dermot, who passed away on
June 13, 2003)
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