Tags
1967, 2016, 9*, alley, axe, birth, black, blue, classroom, echo, eyes, faces, fields, garden, grey, hate, hazel, ivy, kitchen, leaf, life, love, mist, morning, passing, pigs, pink, Ramsden Heath, Robin, silence, sky, snow, sound, speech, step, sun, teacher, thought, ugliness, vertical, waiting, walls, white, windows, winter, witness, woodland, yellow
snow
waiting;
ruffles beneath the trembling ivy,
divergent verticals in the hazel coppices;
silence;
reverent steps, and in the cavernous
grey of high hangs the faintest, pink;
baton;
on a woodland bank a single lesser
periwinkle holds up a blue flower,
by the wall a solo leaf descants to the ground
and a snowflake touches the cheek;
turn;
the black background of the woods
a million flakes seen,
in the classroom thirty pairs of eyes
drift across to the window
and the music teacher holds
his sentence;
thought;
leeward black, and fields of white, if
we were to hate everything that
included rip and tear of any ugliness,
there would be nothing left to love;
morning;
through window panes the sun
is a flat yellow disc viewable
without hurt to the eye,
mist divides land into borough
and alleyway stepping crunch from the
steam kitchen into the sparkling garden;
piggery;
at the bottom of the garden,
piglets stop snuffling around and stand
looking, like little pink statues, then …
hurtle across the yard barking at the sun
(the sow had rather build her nest in the
corner of the field, one morning
she was there, an army of piglets
lined up at the milk bar
the most ridiculous expressions
of content upon their faces, and
a robin on the solid water
of the cattle trough);
witness;
the ch-nnk and bite of axe in log
bounced across the fields to the woods and back with
such clarity I expected it to continue
as he laid his axe aside, “Morning”,
“Morning”;
it is not winter that dispels life,
but life that dispels winter
read the collected work as it is published: here
this is an appliquiary to: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Snow
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black & blue & echo & eyes & faces & fields & garden & grey & kitchen & life & love & morning & pink & silence & sky & snow & sound & sun & walls & white & windows & winter & yellow wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Snow
faces wormhole: “The Lady from Nowhere”
passing wormhole: trying to focus / on walking
thought wormhole: Clea
waiting wormhole: returning home handsome
