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A hazy day, apart from you - Poem

Literary Review,  Wntr, 2002  by Aonghas MacNeacail

a hazy day, apart from you

   a hazy day, apart from you
   i sit beside a firth,
   see the peaks beyond
   restless in the mist

   enclosing autumn is
   a weight on me, the way it
   drags the days from me, on
   its slide down into darkness

   while the lovely leaf in its
   dress of embers, falling
   shyly, makes a slow mesmeric
   chain that holds my eyes,

   in which I see
   dawn in your lips, sale night
   in your hair, pale noon in your breast,
   and you my enduring summer

Aonghas MacNeacail is a native of Skye and presently lives in Peeblesshire. His poetry collection Oideachadh Ceart agus dain eile/ A Proper Schooling and other poems won The Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year in 1997. He has published several other collections of poetry, including imaginary wounds, sireadh bradain sicir/ seeking wise salmon, and an cathadh mor/the great snowbattle.

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