Enniskillen: my home town. The Castle Museum, once the stronghold of the Maguires. White walls, watercolours, framed in natural wood with dark dove-grey mounts, hanging there on 6 July 1983. An American poet was in town, with his friend, Bernard, 'country walker, botaniser'. How many times have botanical paintings been encapsulated in poetry? Erasmus Darwin: 'So now Delany forms her mimic bowers, Her paper foliage, and her silken flowers . . .' Myriad, ineluctable connections, I suddenly realise, and one connection: Wendy Felicite Walsh.
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