New Moon tonight, Dotetto1,
drowsy flowers offering scent
to badgers, prowling cats,
and dark-wandering women.
I am here again, Dotetto,
steeped in the black,
waving invisible fingers
before my nose. So often here
in this field of questions,
the stone calling your name
to the winds of three millenia:
Dotetto, son of Maglani.
And does it matter now
if your father ruffled your hair
or hunkered down to meet
your shining eyes?
1↑ County Tyrone’s only surviving ogham stone, Aghascrebagh ogham stone, carries the inscription DOTETTO MAQI MAGLANI, Dotetto, son of Maglani.
