Occasional Impressions

Gemini Twin

Landscape (Hemingford Grey)

Not late or early. here it is the hanging
Of the year, the hour,
Where smoothed land shows itself a stranger
To hours, because it lifts nothing
Towards the sky. The leaden grass, and heavy
Heavy trees and flat and solid water
Do not touch one another, do not touch the sky,
Do not print happening on the air,
Pale washed and dried
In water of the veiled sun. I
Can do nothing, where this soil
Out of its long present looks at me,
Noticing nothing. It is making me
For this time, and I cannot touch its hand.

I do not happen here.
rdw - mar 1971

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