Calling of the Celts
Let’s name her Fern, my father said but Mother cried, oh, no! She’d dreamt of grass so lush and green, that name they must let go With roots dug deep in Irish soil, I’d need a Gaelic name And since my blood ran shamrock green, Kelly I became Late at night, when slumber falls, I dream of misty isles Of saint-chased snakes and emerald dust, fairies on fence stiles. When my dreams run especially deep, I see sage ferns of lace Ancient lace, silvery ferns, swamps o’er all the place Live with us, swamp with us, flourish in our