Sunday, December 26, 2010

Closed Geometry

[photo, son David: St. Malo, France]

A sloping downland over
Cliffs where morning
Mist veiled distance--
Sound and dreams
Reforming gray
Watery light served
Our needs as we
Woke, confused,
Emerged from night
Amnestic and saw
Light thread
Dawn to the
Hill we stood on.

2 comments:

  1. This poem's landscape architecture somehow differs for me the terrain that I know you have tended for so many years in Sacramento. So? I recall camping trips with you when we were both young to coastal bluffs like these. So? That's perhaps just my idiosyncratic response to these magical lines....

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  2. Thanks Willie. Bacon wrote: "Every man is a debtor to his profession and must make some return." Garden includes the sea now, perhaps even the stars. Scope has widened but, for me, the axiom holds true.

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