John Davies
Ghosts, Land and Sky
If the sky is whole time
turned through mist-coloured mountains
and imaging us and earth
in hanging clouds and vines,
then negatives are exposed
in ripples and hard currents,
ghosts, land and sky
tree-guarded in night landscape.
In the few sparks of a storm,
night-silhouettes own the sky
where storm’s ships crash and break,
and voices rage against black clouds -
the black sun-shifting clouds;
two lives can meet and pass
along sky’s crossways, two lives
becoming fixed and interchangeable,
and the same along sky’s time.
Regression is seen in one bird
joining others blackening the sky
with their flag spirit.
The sweet thought comes as they ride
that it knows these routes, knows
each cloud and turn, each face.
Looked into dawn’s face before,
like stumbling across memories
wherever you keep them.
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