Happy Trails
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Thirty-five years ago,one night in a Dublin hostel,Dostoevsky on my pillowbeneath a 40-watt bulb,
trying to forget the soundof young Fiona Magee,diabetic, wheelchair bound,a double amputee,
squealing through paper walls,“Ah, couldn’t ye love him so!”The reply, something inaudible,thirty-five years ago. [End Page 169]
Peter Filkins
PETER FILKINS is the author of four collections of poems, including The View We’re Granted, co-winner of the Sheila Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club. He has been a fellow at the James Merrill House and the MacDowell Colony. He teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and translation at Bard’s main campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
