mother hill

mother hill

 

your soundless

fathomless age

reigns here

shivering sides

consistently giving

a little away –

a previous road

lost to your flank

 

having tackled your side

goat-like

sweating and impudent

i stop

for the thudding of my heart

booming within

my skull

like a grouse hunt

 

some

have ashes scattered here

though i suspect

the wind along your back

sees loved ones

quickly returned

as an unexpected kiss

of white and grey and bone

 

within your embrace

sleep

those of bronze

then iron

forgotten beneath

modern feet

rubber

stifling connection

 

we have lost so much

in two thousand years

of men

and bigotry

but there is kindness

in your craggy reach

the loving energy of the earth

still shining deep within