Open, Heaven dochartaigh What’s the one dish you’d

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time

is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty

and fragile beauty of everyday life

drowned in the sea

because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy

Open, Heaven dochartaigh What’s the one dish you’dJames, a sheltered, shy sixteen year old, is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and the rural community he has grown up in. He dreams of another life, fantasizing about what lies beyond the villages leaf ribboned boundaries, beyond his reach: autonomy,