She has them all in her keeping

Today is World Galgo Day, held every year on Brigid’s Day. It doesn’t surprise me that she would want to be part of this international outcry at our inhumanity to these beautiful creatures.

She has them all in her keeping

Last night Brigid trod the dark,
the grass wet with greening spring
and bent to smell the blossom
of the honeysuckle bush.

She bent to touch the narrow heads,
the long and silky ears, looked
into brown and trusting eyes
of the gazehounds at her side,

sons and daughters of the wind,
sight and scent, sound and vision,
and said, stay close, walk in my steps,
and I will smooth the hurt away,

for the world’s an ugly place,
unfit for your slender grace.