#1991 - cold colour

 

1991

6.165

14.vi.25

cold colour

ekphrastic for Joanna Bogadottir’s ‘Fragile World’

 

a bird in this world

till undercloud green

fire as well or who would see

 

an almost shape, expression

thing over another

things falling away from the day

that’s time’s abandon

there’s our vanish

 

ice is a whale

accidental boat

that’s the idea

 

a bear rides seas

hours as if prisoned in the wave

 

what’s given is hard

somewhere there’s soil

 

wild gesture of what is

 

all till find a foothold green

pond, river considered

 

none of this makes a map

but has its music  

 

precious to be found

where all along we’re here