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Evensong - DOVES

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

DOVES Talking with the man on the bus From Iona to the end of Mull And thinking of his white papers for defence That had fluttered like doves from Whitehall...

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Evensong - SIGNING

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SIGNING On a train eager with June children, The level heat dizzy in the fields – I saw two women leaning in together, Intent, talking in total silence...

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Evensong - HARVEST

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

HARVEST Old ways are no more; most men are redundant, Empty-handed, grandsons of farm labourers Gone from the land, who do not know the difference Between lathes and spades...

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Evensong - ONE WINTER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ONE WINTER We went to the woods for holly On days that were five below; The river a glass slide, the skies such pale blue The world was a kind of white...

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Evensong - OCTOBER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

OCTOBER She knows that something’s different In the skies, blue but sharper than before...

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Evensong - THAW

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

THAW Seven weeks of frost. A fist gripped The fields and woods in thick ice...

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Evensong - THE DISAPPEARED

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

THE DISAPPEARED Jorge Antonio Careli I do not know you; Only an imprint of a name on paper As slight as a butterfly’s passing. In the metal blue heat of Rio...

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Evensong - THE SUMMER HOUSE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

THE SUMMER HOUSE There is the hush of sea in an open window And a child coming running under bare sunlight With news of shells and a big whale...

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Evensong - CURLEWS

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

CURLEWS On windless white-blue summer nights They swim the skies invisible, Water voices trailing over fields...

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Evensong - BELIEVING

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

BELIEVING Winter and the geese circle the fields in hunching skeins, Everything asleep and buried, secret, Waiting for some silent voice to waken them once more...

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Evensong - SAM

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SAM The boy wanders the farm tracks Summer and winter, going nowhere...

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Evensong - DAFFODIL

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

DAFFODIL The jagged lightning that struck him once Has left him in a wheelchair and a home...

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Evensong - GLIESE 581

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

GLIESE 581 If we should find some other star – Half a century away, still in the silence of the sky –...

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Evensong - SWALLOWS

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SWALLOWS On a day that is almost September, Torn between sun and wind, Like ice skaters curling the sky They loop and skirt and lift – Little miracles made of air...

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Evensong - SOLACE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

SOLACE I look back through my mind and see The days when forest wolved the land in mystery And light was cradled out of coracles In wild and wintered island storm...

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Evensong - NOVEMBER

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

NOVEMBER In winter we go whole days without seeing light – The trees condemned, heads bowed and bare...

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Evensong - MAKE - BELIEVE

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

MAKE-BELIEVE There is no God nowadays, We have grown up and gone away from home. There is no last prayer before the light goes out – We lie awake and wonder, and the dark is sore...

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Evensong - ALL I KNOW

by SPCK - Kenneth Steven

ALL I KNOW Evensong The late sun leaving in the trees an orange-red, A soft honey fire. There has been no breath of wind In fifteen days; leaves hang gold and gorgeous In the woods, and through them the deer tread Patched with light, wary. The year begins to die; The rowans hang …

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