Time & Tide

                  Time & Tide

                                    presence and absence

jointly proclaim

a boundary

a living space

a time

where one was changed

and wrought

a difference -

presence and absence

jointly define

a living space

confirm a place

where once a life

was lived

and changed

and in its turn

wrought change

malcolm evison

01 – 04 december 2016

The Old Man

 

They hang; a heavy weightlessness,
like long forgotten memories
seeking renewal. The man sits,
beside the window, looking
at the clouds. Remembering.


But nothing quite fits. If only
he could pass, at will, into
insanity. That would remove
the purgatory – desiring flames
to quench the smouldering remnants


of a life. He sits, beside the window,
watching the clouds. And waiting;


waiting for night-fall. Remembering.

Malcolm Evison