MARCEL OPHULS ~

M A R C E L   O P H U L S

1927 ~ 2025

JOHN MONTAGUE ~

  

Windharp

                for Patrick Collins

The sounds of Ireland,

that restless whispering

you never get away

from, seeping out of

low bushes and grass,

heatherbells and fern,

wrinkling bog pools,

scraping tree branches,

light hunting cloud,

sound hounding sight,

a hand ceaselessly and stroking

the landscape, till

the valley gleams

like the pile upon

a mountain pony's coat.

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John Montague

Collected Poems

Wake Forest, 1982