#876 - the windmills

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the windmills 

excuse me, while I kiss the sky 

                     – Hendrix

in lovely afternoon light 

winter coming on 

it is beautiful to see the solution  

with what grace of nature turned 

by gravel track 

hill high  

tank, silo, boulder lit 

all the broad valley 

golden patching of these slopes

and here’s the future now 

a gathering – these friends 

see old lines of transmission under 

held up by forest once 

beautiful to see these

flowers they are

and turn 

see the sun and the shadows they cast

a west of cloud and cobalt

your demons will say ‘satanic mills’

but they are just chimneys 

they are just smoke

we’re kicking the habit 

worth it but hard  

winter coming on 

in lovely afternoon light 

how gently they turn the day