Falling Out of Heaven
John Lynch
To my parents Finn and Rose
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Counting in the Dark
The Last Thing to Go
Stronger than Pain
The Horizon
The Firebird
The Fall
The Pier
Eating God
What You Don’t See
May
Blue-grey
The Boys
Baby Man
The Gift
Peter
The Lacewing
Standing in the Mouth of Love
The Room at the End of the World
The First Man
Pieces of the Day
The Shifting of the Earth
Fishing
Clouds
The Stain
Honour Him
The Seagull
Torn Down
Falling Together
Take it Back
The New Sun
The Healing School
Winter
Bring a Protestant
Peace and Reconciliation
Black Daffodil
Farrell’s Undoing
Water
Wildflowers
The Kiss that Never Was
Dying Egypt, Dying
Snow
References
Memory Down
Softer than Love
Begging for a Fairytale
The Sign of the Cross
Spilled
Days Like People
No Bounce
Dead Man’s Hand
Like an Egg
The Twin
On the Wing
Raw
The Cave
Shilling