Tag: July

The Perfect Evening

I begin to look for it from the start of July… The ‘perfect evening’. Highly subjective, of course. For me, it begins with a gentleness of warm (but not hot) air flowing over the land. Add in light that has a softness – as though mother-of-pearl had been ground into a fine dust and scattered, unseen. And the final ingredient is an emotional, mellow … Read More The Perfect Evening

Pass slowly over me

Pass slowly over me   Blue and pearl of July sky   Lift from this day   A living crown of summer’s leaves   And place it on my hidden head   As lasting ghost of sky that shone   ▵   This done, let me pass this way    When days are dark and short   And ground is mud and slush   … Read More Pass slowly over me