Stanley Pelter: ‘THUNDERGUY’—ISLE OF ARRAN

a moon
even in shadow
her wet eyes

Grey and more
Drizzle
Clouds drift, pull lower over Meall Biorach
Fall into heather at Doire Fhionn Lochan

some deep
others near the surface
so many pitfalls

Town clothes, town shoes, town socks
Drag of heavy waves
As sea-served crags fix
And trees in Coirein Lochain diffract
Drizzle and more

wet rocks
they reflect
his going

Elevation hurts
Unlaundered landscape
So raw it tangles
As it straggles down

path bumps uphill
parallel streams churn stones
on the way down

Mud slides upwards
Disappears in twists of a downturn
Illusions spill in clots like sour milk
Drizzle………………………Alone

once he came
now she takes his pain
on her own


by Stanley Pelter
Claypole, Lincolnshire, England
first published in insideoutside (2008)