#2058 - cloud with a name like mine

 

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cloud with a name like mine

for godsbother, clockworks, a field guide to Australian clouds

 

there’s time we keep in a stone

    on a shelf

reminds me

         and that’s where we’ve been

that’s who we are

 

each a little deity

 

here’s one of a beach on Skye

here’s my Arran pebble

 

there’s a trail along the River Spey

there’s time in the stream

 

glacial erratics, dropstones

many various

 

the sea itself is time

 

all the grim ages wash up

wash away

 

make our own misery too

 

time’s to the fire

so ash

 

all these gods

fanatic with the telling, stumm

 

the wristleech, humanity’s crime

 

screen time, family time, time inside

time beside

 

and here’s my clock of cloud

     a self

 

I do my own eternity

it’s in the key of me

 

I’m reminded

 

by the Iceland stone

fresh, volcanic

rinsed in, even so

far afoot

 

shaped with great paws come round

with a beard of weed

trident flung

 

a face in the cloud in the stone

a sky in the eye

 

all of this as real as mind

            as time

as world’s turning

 

you’ll have to imagine angels

they’re not really there