Oscar's Green Sweater


I'm knitting a green sweater;

I've found the peace again after Bosie.

Life isn't hell when the needles click gently.


Your man Danny from Letterkenny

Came down to Galway and Connemara

With a basket full of beautiful wool yarns.


I'm back in the Four Green Fields

Sitting comfortably. My Donegal skeins

The colours of gorse, kelp and seaweed.


I'm knitting a sweater for Cyril or Vyvian.

I want them to remember I was once a Dubliner,

and that green is for Ireland.