A Room in the sky….

Hi All, Just received my username and password (I’ll never remember it) so am trying out a post for the first time.

For those of us who work in the roof space of our homes, you might like this from Seamus Heaney…..

The Skylight

You were the one for the skylight. I opposed

Cutting into the seasoned tongue-and groove

Of pitch pine. I liked it low and closed,

Its claustrophobic, nest-up-in-the-roof

Effect. I liked the snuff-dry feeling,

The perfect, trunk-lid fit of the old ceiling.

Under there, it was all hutch and hatch

The blue slates kept the heat like midnight thatch.

 

But when the slates came off, extravagant

Sky entered and held surprise wide open.

For days I felt like an inhabitant

Of that house where the man sick of the palsy

Was lowered through the roof, had his sins forgiven,

Was healed, took up his bed and walked away.

 

See you soon, Sarah (Lewis)

PS Thanks for setting this up Keith and Robbie