\u00a0
\nThe railway track divides where
\nthe road slopes up beside a genteel,
\n\u00a0
\nGeorgian terrace. Where do we
\ndoubt what it means to follow,
\n\u00a0
\nwhat it means to lead, like water
\nsettling behind the swimmer,
\n\u00a0
\nas if the body encroached, wanted
\nto talk, then spread its sleep?
\n\u00a0
\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0
\nWhat is it, then, for the clouds to open and
\nlet the sun through;\u00a0 too easy, too objective,
\n\u00a0
\nwaiting for some contrail to cross the blue
\nand show that there is one idea moving to
\n\u00a0
\nanother, like a cross-headed screw turned
\ntoo tightly into the door shredding dust
\n\u00a0
\nout of the conti-board; a chorus which meets
\nout beyond the lozenges of stained glass
\n\u00a0
\nas they parade along the inside of the church,
\nthrough which we might have seen the trees
\n\u00a0
\nsway and rock, the tide receding, rocks exposed,
\na whole new island forgiving us from the shallow water.\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0
\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\nAnd as I bent over the large top
\nof the map chest to tidy folders, papers,
\n\u00a0
\nplastic wallets, the window rose above
\nme; across the valley, green meadows
\n\u00a0
\nfell, a church, half-hidden, shouldered out
\nonto the skyline, its curt brickwork
\n\u00a0
\npitted with windows like light bulbs
\nwaiting for the filament to burn out.\u00a0
\n\u00a0
\nAnd when the map chest was tidy and
\nrelocked, and when the church was spilled
\n\u00a0
\nas if its flesh were sand, the rain came
\nover the hill, like water blown over the heel
\n\u00a0
\nof my hand, the hand that was no good there,
\nhowever, and no good anywhere else.\u00a0
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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