Hüm
Twilight, gloaming;
to walk blind
against the wind;
to be abject; lick snot
and rain from the top lip
like a sick calf.
To be blinded by rain
from the north.
To be blinded
by westerly rain.
To walk uphill
into a tarry peatcut
and bluster a deal
with the Trowes.
To cross the bull's field
in the dark.
To pass in the dark
a gate of hollow bars
inside which the wind is broaling.
To pass in the dark
a byre like a rotten walnut.
To not know the gate
till you run up against it.
..........by Jen Hadfield
from his latest collection, Nigh-No-Place
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