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Thursday, 16 March 2023

Top Of That Hill

Giuseppe Penone’s

Alberto Folgorato

(Lightning struck tree)

Could be the very metaphor


Amplified by the dark clouds of Yorkshire

Highlighted by the sky's silver linings

The split trunk

Says much about divergence


The gold-leaf offshoot

Itself splits in two

Their fine points

Reaching ever upward


Yet it is the dark bark

A combination of browns, silver-greys

With slivers of gold

Which looks strongest, which reaches highest


What we leave behind

May grow ever brighter

But in no way, no way whatsoever

Did it stunt our growth