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Saturday, January 09, 2016

WORDS FAIL - (A Fell Revisited)




                                                 
                                                                                        WORDS FAIL



These words do not ring true,
cannot contain the tread
of rubber sole upon the beaten track,

the slide of stone beneath the feet,
the rustling of leaves
among the tangled roots.

These words cannot ring true;
as roots erode the step
whose shelf they form –

my words fail to express
the stressful joy, fail to commune
with nature. These words

do not permit the real footfall.
The fell remains

Unconquered.




Malcolm Evison



09 January 2016
Revision of Apropos Kings How May 1981

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