An opal luminosity
Evening dark, damp, cold
Retreat into electric caves
Try not to think about you
In your grave. Your soul
Meandering. Suicides in GB
Buried in unconsecrated
Ground, until a MP topped
Himself and was buried
In Westminster Abbey 1822:
Viscount Castlereagh. I think.
Easier to digress than to confess
How flummoxed am I
With the whole unholy business
Of not saying goodbye.
I want you to live vicariously
Through me. But that reversal
Can never be. I retreat into
The dry stone walls of north
Lancashire, the southern Lakes,
And stare, like Wordsworth,
At the hills beyond the five-bar
Gate.