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 reflections of caernarvon by Rg Gregory 
						ii shall die yearning
 
 a hand
 reaching out to
 a face that isn't there
 
 a face
 seeking a hand
 
 a stone
 leaving its mountain-
 wall in a wind
 anxious to be a bird
 
 a bird
 crying to be a wall
 
 ii
 north wales
 
 the goat pisses
 the hawk hangs
 the mountain leans forward out of the mist
 
 iii
 on this hill
 
 between the stone wind
 and the wall of stones
 i am a hollow
 scooped out by the sun
 my substance dropped
 over the wall - another
 loosened boulder
 a plaything for grass
 
 the present sits in
 my mouth for shelter
 till the sun leans on his spade
 the grass throttles the clock
 around me
 
 the stone cottage flies away
 the wall leaps downhill
 the wind is a mountain
 the sun becomes gold ore
 timelessness deflates me
 
 look mother
 i have found a fossil
 here are the marks
 of its hands and feet
 it must be millions of years old
 
 my eyes are caves down to the sea
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