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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Arrival

'Arrival' a poem by Judith Bishop

by Judith Bishop •
November 2009, no. 316

Where the mind comes from,
where it goes,
when the moon rose,
where among the stars the light was seen
as you were born:
if it glistened in the tracks
stamped on leaves across the park
where we walked the early afternoon, alert,
listening up,
hearing how the plovers
pipe back and forth across the grass …

 


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