Sunday, March 15, 2009

We change the map

Pier

I have been always one for paths myself.
The mole’s view. Paths and small roads and the next bend.
Arched trees tunnelling into a coin of light.
No overview, no sense of what lies where.

Pinning up maps now, pinning my attention,
I cannot hold whole countries in my mind,
nor recognise their borders.

© 1996, Kerry Hardie
From: A Furious Place
Publisher: The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 1996
ISBN: 1852351950

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