La Tour des Pendus - 26x34" - 65x85cm - watercolour - 1999

 

 

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The sky's uneasy in the fading light

 

 

The sky's uneasy in the fading light;
beneath, I feel unease accordingly
and, mute, can hardly bring to mind a lead
on what is wrong. It's easy to misread
a world's emotions as one's own, to be
so plumbed and understood. Swift waves of night

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flood out on heavy dusk: awake, I see
formations in the sky, an intense moon
upon a chasm: yet am dumb to watch
and not look inwardly. The midnight's notch,
a staring child open-mouthed, and soon
an image set against the dark: unfree

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the senses seem, in reading deeps of mood
so clear, yet in themselves not understood.


 

 

 

From 'A Lens to the Sun' ~ pub. Aug. 1999 ~ © David Wheldon

 

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