Tuesday, 12 August 2008

In Absentia

Oh dear. Well, without further comment we'll fix the gap that was Mr Thomas.

on a clear day
unfasten the gate
and take the path
over the machair
through the orchids
down to the sea

-

before the day begins
or when the business of the day
is over there are intervals
densities of blue or grey
when you stand on the brink
of a different possibility
a stillness that opens
out into clarity or
a subtlety that folds
back into stillness again
you might almost touch it
an occasion in the air
as steady as a great tree
branching into delicate life

-

Thomas A Clark.

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