> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # we have a story for you - URL: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/we-have-a-story-for-you/ - Published: 2024-11-07T15:44:21.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T13:28:48.000Z - Description: no.1 - a bi-weekly series of stories we've published - Author: bog bodies press - Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1792589186246, #Import 2026-10-21 13:27 from now on, every two weeks we will share one (or two) of the brilliant stories we’ve published with you here on substack. we’re delighted to build another platform for our contributors’ work - incredible wide-ranging stories from everywhere that need to be heard. we genuinely love these pieces and can’t wait for you to read them too! here is the first of the series, from [mnemotope issue 006](https://bogbodiespress.com/mnemotope-006?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com). [Subscribe](#/portal/signup) ## Plurabelle by Gavin Jennings ##### And all that road going to ##### the bottom of the sky with ##### a death of growth a desert and ##### all through the slow spending ##### of the day and as day follows night ##### we see the rings of Saturn ##### like those see-ha on the hill ##### this is the second summer of love ##### this is a circle journey where you ##### will meet yourself and meet that man on all ##### That road going until it’s upside down ##### And dig it before the second summer of love ##### ridiculously early to be literate ##### and up seeing the rings of Saturn ##### like the see-ha on the hill and now ##### Finn Wakes Again and shakes my ##### dull silver bough this money tree ##### shaking with the self-mythology ##### of this greying crying man a grey that may ##### shine silver shine with me on to all that ##### Road going and sure you can’t forget ##### That’s not something we do over here Onsaw ##### Onsaw Onsaw since didn’t Jim and Sam ##### Shine all about it and take me step by step ##### through how to open a door one foot after ##### the other these rhyming steps and rhyming ##### beats that drove Michael to gain a T and lose ##### his life yet there’s some youth to be found ##### far from some black pool out east so far so ##### we surge on west on all that road ##### Going to where fellas were shot up against ##### The wall only a stonesthrow from here ##### and when he told you there was a fire burning ##### you knew what he meant as you shone through ##### that second summer of love and you knew ##### each ring of Saturn you knew you had known ##### that Italian poet from the thirteenth century ##### Since in the poem of you ##### there’s nothing in you but ##### Your half-stories and all that road going ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/9278b4bf-67ce-46c7-8629-b58a7c947ce9_1278x1510-1.png) ## After my father, Seán Browne - Tar éis m’athair, Seán De Brún by Roisín Browne ##### Foclóir Póca – Pocket Dictionary ##### Gaeilge Béarla – Irish English ##### Foclóir m’athair – My father’s dictionary ##### Focal – Word ##### In with the papers, the scribbled notes, the work diaries, the reading books, ##### a dictionary, with a duck egg blue well worked cover, sleeps. ##### Sun faded sellotape clings to the fat spine, holding words and everything in place. ##### Inside he has taken his blue, black and red pens to make lines, circles, arrows, text. ##### Pink, green, orange and yellow markers rectangle and box important words. ##### Two ways of saying, two ways of meaning, caught between his fingers. ##### Each focal lifted up to the light, twirled in anticipation of discovery. ##### On some pages, parts of sentences or single words, are written in his own hand. ##### I trace the litany of print, ink and marked letters. ##### Page after page, I reel them in. ##### Eiseachas – Existentialism ##### Dúil – desire, fondness, expectation, hope ##### Folaíocht – lineage, descent, blood, breeding ##### Searc – love, beloved one ##### Gleoiteacht – loveliness ##### Macánta – gentle, honest ##### Dealramh – sheen, radiance, resemblance ##### Bogha báistí – rainbow ##### Ceolán – little bell, tinkle ##### And on and on for each of the five hundred and thirty-five pages he stars, ex’s, underlines, ##### practical words, life words, heart words, soul words. ##### Go deo, ##### go deo, ##### go deo\*. ##### \*Go deo - forever [Subscribe](#/portal/signup) see you next time!