Emerald Isle

I can’t remember much of Dublin but glimpses: the red hostel door, a lush candied cherry, a cousin of the Temple Bar; waking up to the groan of your body, curled up, then rolling and buckling the top bunk above me; a turquoise wallpaper in the shop where we bought fish and chips; I can picture gray cobblestones, but can’t remember street names. When I hear “Ireland,” it’s the Burren I embody, the way the country spills and rolls right into the Atlantic. I see black, towering cliffs, the spray and foam churning. I feel wind thick with salt and cold, and I see it whipping your dark hair. The fence we hopped over or slipped around. The only guardrails: thick patches of tall emerald grass. I remember leaning in, to the right, into the brush, buffeted by the wind and anchored by fear of not falling over. But shoulder to shoulder, we stood and braced ourselves between the sea and the sky. Somewhere further down that impossibly green road, I scraped our initials into the slate with a stone: CG + KF were here.

Words by Caitlin Ghegan

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