A hazy day, apart from you.(Poem)

From: The Literary Review  |  Date: 1/1/2002  |  Author: MacNeacail, Aonghas

a hazy day, apart from you 
 
   a hazy day, apart from you 
   i sit beside a firth, 
   see the peaks beyond 
   restless in the mist 
 
   enclosing autumn is 
   a weight on me, the way it 
   drags the days from me, on 
   its slide down into darkness 
 
   while the lovely leaf in its 
   dress of embers, falling 
   shyly, makes a slow mesmeric 
   chain that holds my eyes, 
 
   in which I see 
   dawn in your lips, sale night 
   in your hair, ...

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