Two Poems for Black Dogs
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A red seam shot through the dust
Buried, unreachable, connecting the Forest mountains
Who do not answer the vanities of this matrix-weaver
Above, a rain-blackened presencing – how still it seems;
It is the formless first face, having evolved from Sea’s first covering of Earth
And would show us our own face beneath
And it covers the three stars which rise [...]
October Love Song
The dark turquoise of Sun and Night’s mooring glows in the sea
Their midnight-blue caravan hangs, faces grimace into the south;
I see an insane intent frozen, of travel, of some target
Glow in the sea, where I wait listening, still as they
I think on Gealach, and wonder about the light on the isle
As a lantern she may [...]
