Sunday, August 3, 2025

Distance

 

Distance


A train tunnelling through the night-time lights briefly

before the sound, self-weaving,

eventually becomes another thread in the wind.


From over the fields, a dog barks; perhaps a fox

stirring the undergrowth, a flurry of wings in a coop;

the commotion broadcast along the chicken wire.


A bird is calling from the unknown of  vanished daytime;

a child listens; a key turns;

another vastness opens in the sweeping of invisble wings. 

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