Lovely. I've been there. I think you could do without
one or two adjectives and the last line. But that's
just me. The way the calm comes in is brilliant.
cheers, cara
>
> We turn from the cairn to face the flurries
> of a sleet-thick, bladed rain as it sheets
> down whetted wind. It buffets and bullies,
> rattles my hood and bites my chin and cheeks.
> Now only the wolfish weather and we
> dare the slopes and ragged steeps of the cwm
> where we stumble and find, under the lee,
> out of the wind-song, behind a rock, calm.
>
> Now the swuthering mutes, a blessed relief,
> my breath helmets my head with plumes of mist
> as I blow my fingers to ringing life.
> Hill of winds, cold, fatigue, selves, all overcome,
> we grin, no words, jubilant in conquest.
> Tomorrow's horizons already loom.
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