the clouds

A Winter Storm rolls in over Dunmore Head, 2017

Octaves higher than the peaks, a skirt of vapor
Hesitates, a press of clouds permits
Globed light escaping …


… The moment thinning the curtain,
Real, like the tricks of the light.

Excerpt from: The Clouds

by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

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