Reflection
In
an inch of water
sky
is caught
and
trees stretch naked arms
where
air and liquid meet
light
splits up
and
three worlds interweave.
Leaves
that once shed green light
and
made sweet_
sugar,
the food of life,
move
in this shallow pool
back
to earth
back
to the precious skin
that
works with fire, with air
and
water
to
make life tangible
and
within our living selves
awareness
has
grown to be our world
able
to see, touch, feel,
not
tangible,
but
stronger than a tree
as
bubbles formed in glass
colourless
reflect
all that's around
or
on wet trees, one drop
holds
the world
stretched
round its gleaming edge
taking
in all of it
leaf,
light and earth
to
recreate a world
within
a world. Creates
our
knowledge
so
that we reflect
the
living world. Our power
is
god-like.
Nothing
is beyond us
unless
we sometimes lose
the
vision,
the
play of light on pools.
(c)
Richard Lawson
Churchill
2018
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