A Book - by
There is no frigate like a book
/ To take us lands away,
/ Nor any coursers like a page
/ Of…
There is no frigate like a book
/ To take us lands away,
/ Nor any coursers like a page
/ Of…
It felt as if it had rained for centuries
/ Drips fell ding-dong remorseless, over the drowned fields
/ As if summer had…
Like an enormous wave
/ that lies down over my heart.
/ Like the stunning beauty
/ of the wind over the pines.
/ Like an immense, vital…
as if God spilt salt
/ on his midnight tablecloth
/
/ as if Gibran’s Ugly
/ had flung Beauty’s cloak
/ across the waters –
/ its soft light…
Unattached
/ With no roots
/ With no barrier
/
/ Free as a bird
/ I want to be
/
/ Despite the fears of freedom
/ Despite the vulnerability of the unattached
/ Despite…
Doun through the sea
/ Continuallie
/ A rain o’ cokkils, shells
/ …