Under Black Combe
Time came out of the north-east and skirled about me
then in god’s hideous shapes
it whirled and blew upon the virgin sand
leaving a pure surface behind
as it flew down the beach toward the future
blown this way and that
and quite blind like a diving bird
how sad. So they left me -
I can put my farewell cards
in the sun’s ragged letter box
as we sit like pilots in the car’s cockpit -
out there, the two lights
moving by the shore come brighter
now in the deep black of the fish-lamping.
then in god’s hideous shapes
it whirled and blew upon the virgin sand
leaving a pure surface behind
as it flew down the beach toward the future
blown this way and that
and quite blind like a diving bird
how sad. So they left me -
I can put my farewell cards
in the sun’s ragged letter box
as we sit like pilots in the car’s cockpit -
out there, the two lights
moving by the shore come brighter
now in the deep black of the fish-lamping.
Lynn Foote is a poet and travel writer who has recently completed a novel on Japan.
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