Buying my books

So I have taken to Lulu - who originally assisted with the publication of  The Woodcarver's Son .

Anyone wanting to buy a copy of either the Woodcarver's Son

or The Tree Singer I have linked their pages here.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/danny-fahey/the-woodcarvers-son/paperback/product-23537078.html


 





http://www.lulu.com/shop/danny-fahey/the-tree-singer/paperback/product-23536906.html  (originally published by Dragonfall Press)

http://www.lulu.com/shop/danny-fahey/the-tree-singer/ebook/product-23543175.html


New books will also be avaialable.

Dada's Seed

My Cousin Jack and the the stars on the soles of his feet

Catalina and the ship of dreams - which includes the original Catalina (published by Dragonfall Press) and the follow-up Catalina's Choice.

rip

mouth spitting out 

salty water

feet already beneath

the sand

lost dreams swept back and forth

never to settle never

to reform

unless mangroves bind them

bring them back to life

if deposited

still at the mercy of the wind

the waves

already clawing them back

waves push hard against the chest

if the undercurrent secret lover

of the moon finds the wind

and the time of day favourable

it has the power to haul the feet

out of the sand

drag the body away

ignores the hand that struggles to wave

quickly fills the throat to steal

the voice no

cries for help

another whole

broken down

 grit

and memory for those on the shore

stranded

their voices to record

the horror

though water and wind 

heed not

Language, our mangroves:

  

Open water lures, a web

not driven by hunger

nor the desire to breed,

it just is, a phenomenon —

but would it be if we

with our eyes did not to see,

with our ears did not to hear?

If we did not enter

by feet or ship,

by head or board,

and cross its distances

or ride its waves

because we can,

what then its appreciation?

What if our tales were not told,

no Moby, no Long John?

If the world had no consciousness,

no language to tell

what is seen or heard,

what then of water and sand?

Languages are the mangroves

that form new lands out of old.