Twist

Author's Tea:
Walter Keady wrote
_Mary McGreevy_ and
_The Dowry_ and
several other Irish
themed books.

A gifted Irish storyteller
and an all together
grand reader
his presentation
was a delight.

His tone and cadences
brought to mind the actor
Barry Fitzgerald. (The movie:
"The Bells of St. Mary's.")

He read from _Mary McGreevy_.
Mary left the convent circa 1947,
inherited the farm and became "the farmer,"
chose to have a child but not a marriage.

You might say she set rural Ireland
on its head. And to add insult to
injury she refused to identify the father.

Well, can you believe the gall of herself?

Keady opines that Mary most closely
aligns to his personal history.

He loves mysteries but dislikes corpses.
So, he wrote a novel that created life
instead of death. An unnamed father
(giver of life) instead of a murder.

Brilliant! as the Irish would say.

You know...
I have never knitted:
a sweater starting with the sleeve
a scarf lengthwise
a sock toe up.

What if I twisted
my cherished prejudices
just a degree or two?

What if I tried
a different way?

What if I kicked over
knitting conformity?

I might just
stand my world
on its head.

How lovely!