Copyright © Gerard Smyth; All rights reserved.
Today is not enough
to remember forever this summer,
strolling late across emptied meadows
and the tumbledown yard.
How sinister the motionless grass
and the single bush of blackberries.
The cowshed smelling of its dung-heap
on this voiceless afternoon.
From World Without End, New Writers’ Press, 1977
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