<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><h2 id="chair-pocket-knife-guitar" class="dcr-12ibh7f" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 4px; border: 0px; font-weight: 500; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.15; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 31px;"><font size="4" style="font-size: 22px;">Chair, Pocket Knife, Guitar</font></h2><div><font size="4" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 22px;">The slatted folding chair you sat upon,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The scantlings and ad hoc stuff of that playroom<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">You screened out as you just rocked on and on<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In perfect time before the television,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To-day let all that tick-tock bric-a-brac<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Come like a drumstick stick-man rolling home.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 22px;">The one-blade pocket knife you coveted<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">In a shop window that first evening in France<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And I bought then on the spot in thanksgiving<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">For us just being there: although it’s lost<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I stand like a glad Macbeth faced with its ghost<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Handle towards my hand, saying, ‘Thank, thank God’.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 22px;">The guitar you got the day you started school<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And were photographed with, up on the picnic table,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Play it again to-day, fierce Andalucian<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Serenades and country wedding songs,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Then hang it on the wall, your true love’s token,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Last thing before she sleeps, first when you waken.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-width: inherit; line-height: 1.4; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Seamus Heaney</div></div></body></html>