Listen -
Ascending again
above the Scottish seat
of — creased concrete
Taking the path below the crags
towards Arthur’s — listening
Surface with all the heft of sound
leaning over
Beware of (death by) falling rocks
The grass suddenly green
relieved of the stress of summer
another surface for thinking
[At the peak of Arthur’s —
some rock is polished slip-smooth
by years of feet]
Thinking of the daffodil’s petty sibling
I mean Narcissi
And when I write Narcissi I mean
Narcissus
I mean Echo
I mean - facing you - echoes
I mean the first person
Pronoun - and the surfaces
‘I’ gets set against