#2011 - so golden, so green

 

2011

6.185

4.vii.25

so golden, so green

ekphrastic for George Henry’s 1889 ‘A Galloway Landscape’

 

there are no colours in the wild

but tree for cloud for cow

 

sky worn with its turning

 

lank grass cropped

 

the burn away

 

read the shade

 

there’s not the clock to stop

 

it’s over the hill

 

a tunnels end yellowing

 

the artist makes ghosts of the breathing creature

 

there’s nothing like this on Earth

there are no such afternoons

 

but here’s a little stillness

all heads turned towards

 

just so we are observed