all existence rising

Keeping the Andrew Greig theme going - here's a segment from within the pictured 1994 volume:


In the Debatable Lands

I lay against the standing stone
hard by the ruined keep
where pee-weets
like thoughts made black and white
tilted and were gone ...

and my mind went back and forth across the border
until one night there was a blue
amphitheatre of clouds round the moon
and naked   speechless   unarmed
I rose through that arena ...

I opened my eyes
Impossible to say
what had changed

but each pebble, grass and curlew cry
seemed weighted
as if it shyly bore within

all existence rising.
I saluted the morning
and packed my tent.

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Andrew Greig (1951 - )

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