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Mirror in February

            The day dawns, with scent of must and rain,
Of opened soil, dark trees, dry bedroom air.
Under the fading lamp, half dressed -- my brain
Idling on some compulsive fantasy --
I towel my shaven jaw and stop, and stare,
Riveted by a dark exhausted eye,
A dry downturning mouth.

It seems again that it is time to learn,
In this untiring, crumbling place of growth
To which, for the time being, I return.
Now plainly in the mirror of my soul
I read that I have looked my last on youth
And little more; for they are not made whole
That reach the age of Christ.

Below my window the wakening trees,
Hacked clean for better bearing, stand defaced

Suffering their brute necessities;
And how should the flesh not quail, that span for span
Is mutilated more? In slow distaste
I fold my towel with what grace I can,
Not young, and not renewable, but man.

Thomas Kinsella
   

Taken in: Ireland / Dublin / Sutton (show map)

Taken on: February 11, 2014

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Camera: Olympus E-M5, f/4.5, 1/800 sec, 9mm, ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M5
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Focal Length:	9mm
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	+1.3 EV
Flash:	On, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
Saturation:	High
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Version 1.2
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