Fibre-Optics, My Dear

they clung together in bolsters

like oblique trajectories

 

as finely woven splinters,

creeping – slighted

 

bound, mingling with damp,

atop algae covered stone

 

gloriously sated, in silent hues

of ochre tincture

 

now burnished bold

with fine alluvial dust

 

came quietly sweeping,

with haste – upstream

 

where crepuscular nocturnes

of liquid – churning

 

danced exquisite – alongside

the course battered flax

 

sun-dried, then parched

beneath intrepid blaze of sun

 

though only to return

under deep cloak of night

 

to lay inert upon humus

in dank, drizzled shards

 

near a barren mound

upon a dark chiselled plain

 

 

©Orion Foote 2016

 

4 Responsesso far.

  1. A2Kdavis A2Kdavis says:
    30/07/2016 at 4:39 pm

    Lovely imagery 🙂

  2. john keast john keast says:
    28/07/2016 at 12:54 pm

    Too true, Dean. It does. Very nice.

  3. orionblue orionblue says:
    27/07/2016 at 8:29 pm

    Cheers Dean – I admire everyone on here for their own unique writing, even though I don’t comment on everything – for the most part it’s a pretty solitary passion and it’s nice to have a forum to share – respect to all.

  4. Dean English Dean English says:
    27/07/2016 at 5:17 pm

    lovely earthen cadences, & I found, on first reading, it read itself to me

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