Wednesday 21 May 2008

I fellowed sleep


I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain,

Let fall the tear of time;the sleeper's eye,

Shifting to light,turned on me like a moon.

So,planing-heeled,I flew along my man

And dropped on dreaming and the upward sky.


I fled the earth and,naked,climbed the weather,

Reaching a second ground far from the stars;

And there we wept.I and a ghostly other,

My mothers-eyed ,upon the tops of trees;

I fled that ground as lightly as a feather.


'My fathers' globe knocks on its nave and sings'.

'This that we tread was,too,your fathers' land.'

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