Thursday, 18 February 2021

Ivan Malinowski (1926-89): 'Rain'



Rain

 

A landscape alive with invisible lines

A cloud obscures your afternoon

 

Who is moving out there? Who is it smiling

In an alien realm of sloe and silver?

 

Behind the sky's great sail-sheets the same light

And you know what that signifies

 

This heart-throbbing that is carried to you

Over expanses heavy with salt, it is the boats

 

The ray from the eaves finds its curve

The apple fleshes out its form in the rain, calmly

 

You are all that is missing

Insubvertible images, imperturbable repetitions

 

Forget it: now it grows lighter

And this scent of clover

 

The larks are rising like stones

The lovers have reached the sea.

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