Daily Archives: October 3, 2017

The Early Purges I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, ‘the scraggy wee shits’, Into a bucket; a frail metal sound, Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout Of the pump and the water pumped in. ‘Sure, isn’tContinue reading “October 3: Our Lady of the Place, Rome (1250) – Or Our Lady of the Well”