Through multiple frames
Fractured and faceted
Broken and breaking
Or is the world
Just as it is
And all the fractures and facets
All the breakage and breaking
Just me?
Or is the world
Just as it is
And all the fractures and facets
All the breakage and breaking
Just me?
Until the gloom rolls in
And I see the distant lights
Across the unbridged gap
Understanding at last
The vulnerability
Of this small Islet of Me
Amiss in a vast
And lonely sea
Out of inspiration
Time and photographs exhausted
Post due on the morrow
At a favourite pull-out
Setting up sticks and cam
While the light fails
Utterly
Quick glances to the valley below
Hoping for enough light
To capture the clouds in the valley
To find detail in the trees
And the valley mist
Finally, set up
And capturing frames
When I begin to notice
As one light fails
Another rises
A little old
A little weary
I can rest here
Be in this peaceful moment
What’s a little rain
A little discomfort
After a life of so many storms
Here and there, now and again
Exploration yields discovery
Not of a new world
But a new way of seeing
But there, above, a brooding cloud
Foreboding sight
And, by the morn’, a looming shroud
Gone from memory
As if
They’d never
Happened