Shivering and hungry mothers bore
their sickly infants, doomed before
they saw the light, both soon frail flotsam
on far Lethe's shore.
— from Ethna MacCarthy’s The Charity (a treasure of undiscovered beauty ⬇️)
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After lying forgotten for decades, the poems of Ethna MacCarthy, linguist, doctor, poet, and life-long friend of Samuel Beckett, were finally published in 2019.
