[{"node":{"title":"Hewitt006","Collections":"The Mortal Place","Contributor":"John Hewitt Estate","Coverage":"1986","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Hewitt006","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Roe Street, Coppers, Manor Street","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/hewitt006","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Hewitt006_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwhose names I still remember, druggist, grocer,\nconfectioner, baker, draper, by their wares.\nFrom Dangle Street to Roe Street windows blazed\nwith sight's delight, with treasures pence could buy\nwhen you had coppers, or on bidden errand,\neach character with individual focus\ndwindling at each end with strangers' houses\n\nNow just last week a taximan who lived\nin Manor Street was gunned remorselessly,\nand in between the streets,\nRoe Street and Avonbeg, a wall's being raised\nto hold the tribes apart. For in recent years\nthere's been a drift of folk from distant places\nfor kinships, friendships, comfort, security;\nto paraphrase those words of Baudelaire\na town's more mortal than a people's fears. \n","Type":"Text"}}]