Poetry Rx | “The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney

by | Jul 17, 2026 | Poetry Rx

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

It was a whole new sweetness
in the early days to find
light white muslin blouses
on a see-through nylon line
drip-dying in the bathroom
or a nylon slip in the shine
of it’s own electricity-
as if St. Brigid once more
had rigged up a ray of sun
like the one she’d strung on air
to dry her own cloak on
(hard-pressed Brigid, so
unstoppably on the go)-
the damp and slump and unfair
drag of the workday
made light of and got through
as usual, brilliantly

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