“when the light shifts”

Thomas A. Clark from Yellow & Blue (Carcanet Press, 2014)

Which path will you follow? Stay on the track or venture in ?

The wind whips the tight stems into a vibration,

But they don’t break.

The full light of the sun reaches right down to the

ground,

And reflects obliquely and sideways in among and

under the snug leaves,

Margaret Tait, The Scale of Things

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

John Muir