Dream tapestries

Chapter 18: A SKETCH

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A collection of lyrical poems that weave dreamlike imagery with everyday and mythic scenes. The poems move between enchanted woods, haunted gardens, village interiors and symbolic tableaux, using vivid sensory language—moonlight, apples, flowers, purple pall—to examine longing, loss, desire, and memory. Some pieces adopt songlike forms and short lyric units; others are narrative sketches evoking funerary rites, domestic rituals, and moments of feminine reflection. Recurrent motifs of time, mourning, and the uncanny create a tapestry of mood shifts from playful to elegiac, inviting readers to linger in symbolic moments rather than in continuous narrative.

A SKETCH

I HEAR him humming as he drives his car,

In mellow baritone, an ancient psalm—

Drifting down to his subtle modern brain

From his old covenanting ancestors,

Who strode bare-kneed through purple heather bloom,

Praising their God on wind-swept Highland hills.

I am his wife. Beside him vividly,

I see now not the crowded city streets,

Through which he presses, strong, aloof and calm,

Factories and shipyards where his vast machines

Whirr steadfastly, obedient to his brain—

I see now just those small and golden hours

When he is mine.