Sally Lucas
Interior
Through autumn sharp with stars,
Away from the clean edge of branch and moon,
Fields' quiet ecstasy,
I am warm in the room,
A vagrant mind patched with comfort,
Seeking a soft bed.
And although owls fall
On currents of the night,
My eyes swim with light.
But in the morning,
I have heard the storm
Receding through my silences,
Caught its hunger;
And I have felt joy
At the moon sliding from the fading dark,
Shimmering up my backbone
So I know that walls dissolve,
That my complacency is thinly stretched
Over the raging waters
And would split if held against the jagged stars.
Away from the clean edge of branch and moon,
Fields' quiet ecstasy,
I am warm in the room,
A vagrant mind patched with comfort,
Seeking a soft bed.
And although owls fall
On currents of the night,
My eyes swim with light.
But in the morning,
I have heard the storm
Receding through my silences,
Caught its hunger;
And I have felt joy
At the moon sliding from the fading dark,
Shimmering up my backbone
So I know that walls dissolve,
That my complacency is thinly stretched
Over the raging waters
And would split if held against the jagged stars.
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