Granada

 

Spain again, and learning: autumn turns

each day rich, the frugal November sun

nurses gold from grapevines, and so it earns

our thanks for summer sweat. Everything's done,

rendered whole.

        With the stillness here I feel

in between pendulum swings, in the pause

too long for time; poles of force congeal;

all momentum, cushioned and steadied, draws

silent.

               But the silence cries its name,

edges become crisp, distinct -- this is it,

revelation of form, of what became

enmeshed in movement, now at rest.

                                       We sit

near an Alhambra pool: perhaps tonight

a moon will fuse from sparks of dancing light.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Granada, Spain

October 1984

 

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