January Canvas
Landscape layered through time: the forming of mountains, erosion of rock, the rise and fall of sheepfolds, the opening of tormentil, the play of ravens …
and never the same cloud twice.
tick, tock
white sky white land white light
a snipe takes flight,
feathered stone and snow
tick, tock
the sky is blue, for seconds,
and everything changes
then winter’s sleep returns
and all is black and white
and all is black and white:
rock and snow and sky
the fall of land
the lying low of clouds
the slow tick
of change
the tick, the tock, of time
resting as a wolf
under a veiled sun
Sense of Here 