Wednesday, March 20, 2013

A Leaving

Circa June 2011
The sun upon the cloud bank was a sun upon a sea, 
above a river burning gold that wandered through the trees,
and the Alps were there from nowhere,  
blue-grey and capped with snow,
and the cloud-sea rose to meet them,
island peaks amidst the flow, 
they stretch on like that for miles, 
cloudy mountains mountain clouds
Til I could not tell the difference
from the granite or the shroud.
We banked hard then,and plummeted,
and the hills gave way to green
Italia, lying verdant as far as I could see...
And perhaps it was a leaving
or perhaps a going home
Like seeds born on a summer wind
to grow somewhere unknown

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