Sunday 20 October 2019

On the Mount


Incandescence on the mount, a thumbprint of sun sat

on the summit as swallows bob through haircut branches.

a certain someone alone with grass;

his thoughts are moths his skull of wool.

nature’s cut to frames, still her light restores his centre.

flakes of fairy dust feather my eyelids—

sharing design, or something intimate

to imbue and bond below a yew and imbibe

chimney smoke escapes the terraces below

and

wind of near seasons knock the day.