This Northern Sky, This Solitude

from Northern Sketches by Gary Bunting

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This Northern Sky, This Solitude

This northern sky, sun, shining, silence, rolling hills, curves and angles
This brooding hour, soft fingertips, silhouettes and masterpieces
This skin of stains, vague sensations, hallucinations of ancient characters
This fading day, betwixt, between, incomplete sleep, intrusions
This golden emptiness, wild flowers wild like dancing girls in the sprinkling light
This mirrorball shines, sparkles, highlights the high kites caught in
This bob and weave in the sky, writing slow love letters home
This shuffling evening, leaving, feeling the overspill, pushed and pulled in
This shaft of silence, only traces of past conversations, forgotten, erased
This pocket watch scene, time ticks serene, begin the begin on
This marked deck, aces high, aces low, hands shown and chances blown
This deserted landscape, fuzzy around the edges
This unbuckling, winding down, settling in
This returning, this traveler, volumes of train journeys and chain revolutions
This flickering light, this disappearing light, glanced over bare shoulders
This water colour painting, dainty flicks and arching swishes
This gentle breeze that breathes life and tickles noses
This horizon of perched birds in this corn yellow sunset
This gathering night and this candle wax vibe
This slow motion
This fragile petal
This orange sketch
This lover’s mood
This northern sky
This solitude

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from Northern Sketches, released October 22, 2021

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