Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Relic Environments Trilogy: Book III, Part 1.xiv

from Book III, Part 1, The Lord of Time, His Curiosity and Galliard


Lines near Thetford Forest

November through mist, and morning’s ghost
from the huddled dark of pines 
emerges, hard-by the bracken and sapling larch.

This fiction stands staring, still part
of a dimension it only half-escapes, its bundled senses
strung between the empty dark
and autumn here.
                                                                          
I speak and make a cloud, a watermark betrayal.

Between worlds, the shadow bolts, ruffling
a featheredge of fern.

In its wake, the necklace dew
hangs out a thousand stars.

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