.
Rain patters on a sea that tilts and sighs.
Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows,
Tower suddenly, spray-haired. Contrariwise,
A wave drops like a wall: another follows,
Wilting and scrambling, tirelessly at play
Where there are no ships and no shallows.
Above the sea, the yet more shoreless day,
Riddled by wind, trails lit-up galleries:
They shift to giant ribbing, sift away.
Such attics cleared of me! Such absences!
Absences: Philip Larkin, 1950 (from The Less Deceived, 1955)
Spring Storm Forming (30.3.10): photos by Tom Raworth, 2010
Spring Storm Forming (30.3.10): photos by Tom Raworth, 2010
3 comments:
Thanks also for these -- words and pictures from across the proverbial pond. Tom's pictures catch something of what I was seeing -- at eye level -- yesterday paddling out into the windblown channel.
Tom,
Also here, your page says "1 comment" but nothing seems to be here -- maybe it was here that I wrote something about TR's striking photos of such storm-tossed waters (what I'd seen at eye level paddling out into channel the day before). . . .
[Steve, yegads, another disappearance.
Trying to remember what Ray Lewis said: Pain is only temporary...?
Anyway here is this latest "lost" comment:]
STEPHEN RATCLIFFE has left a new comment on your post "Philip Larkin: Absences":
Thanks also for these -- words and pictures from across the proverbial pond. Tom's pictures catch something of what I was seeing -- at eye level -- yesterday paddling out into the windblown channel.
Posted by STEPHEN RATCLIFFE to TOM CLARK at 5 April 2010 08:02
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