Saturday, 20 December 2025

#2183 - untitled until

 



2183

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ekphrastic for Shay Docking’s 1964 ‘Dark Harbour’

 

come up close to see

 

little square of shone oblong

 

a stone to somewhere mark demise

 

stain of grazing too

 

rotate day’s habits

 

trip at such a canvas height

 

it’s with the eye climbs

pile to distance

 

the village and its mountain

a fieldsrise transhumance

 

come close, look hard

you’ll see every way’s in

 

all is a door

 

some meadows could yet be cloud

there’s asphodel underworld

snow to fire peaks

 

see how a coathanger question hangs

to trick the windows here

 

on a day when no one’s home

mind sinks into this light 




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