#2028 - guess which way's up

 

2028

6.201

19.vii.25

guess which way’s up

ekphrastic for David Body’s ‘Rookery’ at the Castle Gallery, Inverness

 

we think of the sky as something straight

ruins of a storm

fresh paint

 

the ploughlines and all this work –

a road you won’t read

but how else are we here?

 

this is a view from the curve of the world

here’s a flourish of field

a copse dark

 

the window chimney sideways sinks

and colour?

who’ll call it?

 

it’s some of each

as if the rain stays put

call it a farm

 

birds firm the air

each on its way

together, as in parting