Monday, 5 March 2018

4. Forever





You fish between clouds tonight,
eyepiece rolled to her full cycle,
catch her in your wide net.

She clocks eternity,
day-arc, dark-swing,
dame of the turning wheel,

charm of the evening breeze,
cool of the morning desert,
mistress of deep seasons,

the mover of lovers firmed by your scrying,
her rise a slip in the night
where she clings to the dropped sun’s orb.

I watch you watch her ebb from the sky,
veined hand fixing and twisting
on that bright slave to her compelling lord,

mourner of his drowned passions
fallen over your hard world’s edge,
beyond the thrust and suck of the tide.

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