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GILLIAN CLARKE'S BIRTHDAY

Friday, 15 Jun 2007

To mark the seventieth birthday of Carcanet's Gillian Clarke, Barry Wood offers seven haiku, one for each decade:

miraculous hare
leaping into a blue moon
bears felicity

red for wales, red hair
like an acer in full leaf
blazes out its joy

rooted in blaen cwrt
a great tree and ancient well
promise shade and drink

love and nourishment
grow in poetry, music
and radio-waves

syllables of light
sing out for home and hearthstone
blackbird against snow

mysterious as
the moon the huge smooth pebble
contains its city

stone premonition
years rising, falling, rising,
as the hare leaps on







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