(In memory of the artist Brendan Forman)<\/p>\n
The 18th-century stairs retain few intact banisters.
On the floor below your studio a door left unlocked
Yields a glimpse of boards bedecked with an array
Of dismantled entrails of antique Victorian clocks.<\/p>\n
But first I must climb steep flights of bare stairs
To eventually find myself again in that cold attic,
Smelling of oil paints and gas from a leaking heater,
Where, propelled by curiosity, you are immersed<\/p>\n
In canvases that explore the limits of the cosmos,
Unperturbed by such things as monetary success.<\/p>\n
This untended Georgian house possesses no doorbell,
No intercom by which I might check if you\u2019re at work.<\/p>\n
Henrietta Street resounds to the sounds of my calling
Up to your attic window, \u201cBrendan, are you still there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dermot Bolger is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, whose 15th novel,
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