THE ROSARY The ash logs blazed behind us, as we knelt down to the family rosary on the cement hearth floor. One prayer stays with me still: Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here, ever this night be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. The climb upstairs to bed afterwards, was made easier as we watched the dark shadows jump off the wall from the shimmering candle light. -- Mary Guckian, "The Road to Gowel." Mary GUCKIAN, who was born in Kiltoghert, Co. Leitrim, has published at least volumes of verse. Among the poems are sketches of her life and the people she has known. The little softcover books are dotted with Mary's own colorful photographs of Ireland and other places around the world where she has traveled. ( Ms. Guckian produced a series of postcards during the 1980s that sold around Ireland, and her work has been exhibited). Her photos in "Road to Gowel," Swan Press (2000) Dublin include: Flooded River Shannon (at sunset); At St. Lasair's Well, Kilronan, Keadue, Co. Roscommon (tree with rosaries); Potted flowers on the Window Sill with Rainbow; Crane & Millennium Tower at Charlotte Quay, Ringsend, Dublin; View from Carrowkeel looking on to Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo; Bicycle of Pilgrim from Poland parked along the wall of the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth; Milton Hebold sculpture of James Joyce at Fluntern Cemetery, Zurich. Her photos in "Perfume of the Soil," Swan Press (1999) include: Emigrants Cottage; Creel (woven basket to bring home turf from the bog in Leitrim); Old Creamery Can at Kiltoghert with Flowering Tree; Modern sculpture "Harmony" by Sandra Bell; Graffiti at Dublin Docks.