Thursday, October 25, 2007
the blue of a Hokkaido evening
descends like a mist as i round
a tall clump of dark,lush bushes.
suddenly, the earth rolls away
like a magician revealing
a low cloud-sheet of irises!
irises blue and luminescent
like an electric haze glowing,
stretching out into the reaches
of my mind-
and in that shuddering instant,
beyond photographs and paintings
and description,i saw
the colour of internity.
Extracted from
Places Where I've Been
