#1733 - some days (bright it)

 

1733

5.301

28.x.24

bright it

for David and Richard and Ronald

Gore Cove Track Series

 

days you need to get into the sun

a hedge trim or more light requires

 

let the vine tangle round

 

a lizardly skitter

 

times you’ll need to vanish

and here’s the track set out

how to!

 

takes you

some days pressed and ironed

 

trickle

 

some take to the track from duty

 

it always begs a question

larger than the asking

 

there are certain times of light

or shadow catching cloud

 

three fast notes over

where the day persists

 

and best still to come

you must know that

with or without

 

catch edge enough

often underfoot

 

shed bark

or let leaves down some days

 

here where tragedy must strike

because though far away some star explodes

loose gas and rocks become a world

here it’s Planet Earth

 

where some days do your harbour blue

some days just look up

 

you’ll call for the rain some days

 

and it may chase you home

 

rot down some d

best you can do

 

how dark forever in no one’s light

there’s the time when you’re the soil

you know this is how it will be

 

how the turkey comes scratching up behind

 

and where there are hearts to gladden

all of it gladdens the heart