{"id":2747,"date":"2014-12-29T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T06:36:17","slug":"thomas-kerrigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/thomas-kerrigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas (T. S.) Kerrigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2748\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas Kerrigan\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan.jpg 496w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan-152x150.jpg 152w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan-50x50.jpg 50w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Thomas-Kerrigan-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T.S. Kerrigan was born March 15, 1939 in Los Angeles. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his law degree from Loyola University in Los Angeles. Kerrigan is not only a poet, but a playwright. He is the author of &#8220;Branches Among the Stars&#8221; (Louisville, 1990). His plays have been produced in Los Angeles at the Ensemble Studio Theatre (where he formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors) and at the Globe Playhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Kerrigan&#8217;s poetry has appeared in various periodicals, both in the United States and in Europe, including: <em>Southern Review<\/em>, <em>International Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>Poetry Monthly<\/em>, <em>Kansas Quarterly<\/em>, <em>Pacific Review<\/em>, <em>Tennessee Quarterly<\/em>. <em>Another Bloomsday at Molly Malone&#8217;s Pub<\/em>, a collection of poetry, was published by Inevitable Press in 1999. Kerrigan&#8217;s work has recently been included in <em>Good Poems<\/em>, a new anthology by Garrison Keillor, published by Viking-Penguin in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>CROWS ON A TELEGRAPH WIRE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Church of the Assumption<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collooney, County Sligo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We saw that cloud of shabby pilgrims pass,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then settle down along the wire,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The day you came to drag me off to mass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We heard they huddled there through half that day,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A flock of twenty crows or more<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That neither wind nor rain could drive away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I wondered through the chants of morning prayer,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>While others sought salvation\u2019s keys,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What instinct drew that dark assemblage there,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As though some intercession, heaven sent,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now stirred within their fragile bones,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To make that flock of creatures reverent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The grey-eyed priest declared there\u2019d been a sign,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A symbol of enduring faith,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Those crows were man, that Babel, the divine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<strong>CONVERSATION BY THE ZURICHSEE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jung offered Joyce a triton shell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That summer on the Zurichsee,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Advising him to listen well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joyce looked with half-disguised disdain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Could flim flam end his daughter\u2019s fits<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or quell the storm inside her brain.?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019d suffered through her nightly screams,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Her frequent disappearances;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His own spate of disturbing dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He put the shell against his ear<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(He\u2019d play the psychomeddler\u2019s game).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ll tell, Herr Doctor, what I hear:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The murmurs of that deep,\u201d he said;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat sea with no defining coasts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That joins the living with the dead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou\u2019ll never make Lucia well;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe\u2019ll perish in that sea,\u201d said Jung;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u201cYou plunged into its depths \u2013 she fell.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_2747\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"2747\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 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