Lani O’Hanlon is the writer in residence at Molly Keane Writers Retreats and reader in residence with Waterford Libraries. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Hennessy New Irish Writing Award.
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Back Up Quick They’re Hippies
That was the year we drove
into the commune in Cornwall.
“Jesus Jim,” mam said,
“back up quick they’re hippies.”
Through the car window,
tents, row after row, flaps open,
long-haired men and women
curled around each other like babies
and the babies themselves
wandered naked across the grass.
I...