Renewal

Renewal is wonderful

I remember as a boy

watching the stubbled soil

curve slowly

behind the plough blades

as a tractor chugged

through the fields in the spring

the pungent smell

of open earth

and diesel fumes

an odd incense

at this ceremony

presided over by the gulls

under the warm spring sun...

renewal

awakening

and a brief embrace

from a primal force deep

so deep and large

I

spreadeagled on the ground

unable to fully grasp

could only

wonder

 

GR

9 Oct./98

 

Done