Strichen

Mormond Hill's a shadow; beneath the bridge
the Ugie Water's carried all my childhood twigs away.

This stocky figure casting in mid-stream, pipe
gripped in teeth, is caught himself, hooked by memory.

Deaths, losses, clouds, define our landscape;
shade sharpens detail and with the passing light

we are exiled to the present, where everything
holds its place in nervous balance at the wavering
...