ON A TRAIN JOURNEY TO FALMER

We are approaching Berwick    and as the train pulls in
the clouds move solemnly over    their slate grey frayed
with trailing white through which the sun’s rays splay
into a blue rinsed by last night’s hail and rain

the next stop is Firle    and now the huge clouds rise up
darken spiral into white toppling towers that race
over fields of yellow rape seed    white blackthorn blossom
startled magpies    and today nothing can be grasped

but it changes sublates mutates    and there’s no noun
monumental enough to encompass but blows off course
or takes us in    the dupes of grammar    what to nominate
but flux    the blinding hail now hurtling down   already gone14_nowhere.html
 
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