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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