Death of a Field

Question 1

Field to be destroyed

Answer 1

“The field itself is lost the day it becomes a site when the Notice goes up: Fingal County Council - 44 houses”

Question 2

Music of the birds

Answer 2

“The woodpigeons in the willow, the finches in what’s left of the hawthorn hedge and the wagtail in the elder sing on their hungry summer song”
“The magpies sound like flying castanets”

Question 3

Memories

Answer 3

“The memory of the field is lost with loss of it’s herbs”
“And the memory of the of the field disappears with it’s flora”
“Before the field becomes map memory”

Question 4

Personification l

Answer 4

“Who can know the yearning of yarrow. Or the plight of the scarlet pimpernel, whose true colour is orange?”

Question 5

Field were they grew up

Answer 5

“The end of the field is the end of hidey holes, where first smokes, first tokes, first groped were had”

Question 6

End of the field

Answer 6

“The end of dandelion is the start of Flash”
“The end of teazel is the start of Ariel”
“The end of primrose is the start of brillo”
“The end of eyebright is the start of Persil”

Question 7

Reconnect with nature

Answer 7

“I’ll walk out under the moon to know the field through the souls of my feet, to hear the myriad leaf lives green and singing”
“I might possess it, or it possess me”