After
We're walking under a pale sky
through woods white with chalk-dust
seeing how small the primroses are
this year, how blanched and pinched,
yet new after an absence
and as dry as I've ever seen.
*
After dark when mist drapes
its faint butter-muslin over
the roof and the still-awake
face of the cherry-tree,
the house-gleam's circle of light
is a moment's breathing space.
*
There are margins to the nights,
chinks in vision for snatched
glimpses so dazzling
they can only be seen with closed
eyes looking through hingecracks,
gaps in the curtain.
*
Between the power station and the sea
we watch gulls ride high thermals
or rest on platforms of warm air
and see, too, their doubles, disembodied,
shadow-dancing on the building's side.
*
A trowel rings against brick; someone
is mending a wall. And in the moment
after sound dies something hangs
frozen, suspended in the missing beat
between false step and fall.
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