on account of its ensoulment. I’ll go easy on the tuna on account of the mercury marbled through its fat. I’ll cleanse my palate with ginger. 260 bodies washed ashore & were buried at St Cuthbert’s church; nine more were shipped to Scotland with their ghosts still in them, which leaves a thousand rotting in the kelp. What markets of worms & algae boomed around them? What bones are reconfigured in the shell this clam inhabited? In 1967, the ghosts that didn’t leave the ship watched as the world’s first aquanaut dragged their spilled mounds of gold to the surface. Among the artefacts recovered were astrolabes, brooches, crucifixes &c. They are now laid out, precise & gleaming, on velvet mounts in the Ulster Museum. In 2014, the Glenavy River’s stock of fish sank to its bed, like a bag of dropped coins, like the record of a thousand wishes. A year later, mackerel spilled from a truck to the wet tarmac

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