An Laoigh

(for Glynn)

Singing breeze

Singing breeze

Carrying nothing

Kissed by sunlight

Carry my wishes

Scatter my troubles

Leave the grey highway

Slip through the forest

Birch and pine

Needle and catkin

Shutting the sky out

Speckles of sunlight

Evening sky

How many colours

How many colours

Woodsmoke and silence

Unsleeping river

Silence and river

Wanting to share this

Beautifully lonely

Only I saw it

Only I held it

Stop this stone rolling

Let the moss gather

Living as leaf-fall

Living as boulder

Keener than snowmelt

Fuller than August

Cradle of tree roots

Mantle of mountain

Granite horizon

Breezes will soothe you

Whispering breezes

Will you be listening

Do you hear singing

Do you hear forests

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