Deb,
I've been to the mountains in Japan and am very happy for you to be reminded
of them.
Thanks,
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: newsub/darkness and light
> Reminds me of the mountains in Japan. Deborah
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> Darkness and Light
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> The field is lit with tiny flowers,
> the grass silvered with new growth
> that I have walked among for hours.
> From the edge is an opening
> where I flop in from the hot sun
> to a cave of branches,
> descend to a mossy chasm
> where chuckles the river water through roots
> and darts the fingerling trout from stone to stone.
> My eyes adapt and catch the flicker of a little bat
> as it lifts an insect from the passing film.
>
> I did not come here by accident.
> I came looking for something.
> I have not found it,
> but it might be here when I return.
> I have left word with the gossiping leaves,
> a stone buried in the loam.
> I cannot see around the corner
> to the source of the endless water,
> nor the pattern of pebbles on the river bed.
>
> I cannot see far through the trees
> but know how in darkness
> these branches will grow towards light,
> this river flow to a loch
> that holds hills and voyaging cloud.
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> Colin
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