The Snow Abides - Michael Cashmore

Through the towering streets

Grey flecked with the Sun

I am fallen and tumble

Endomed in snow glass orbed Alice eyes

America is dreaming of a restless Autumn

Snow abides

When I saw you

My heart arose

Royal black and blue I am not lost

Yet little star

In the doorway I catch a sign

Shuddering still

Oh there is too much, there is too much

And can I?

And I cannot, cannot…

Snow abides

When I saw you

My heart arose — ecstatic butterfly

Slipping away

Waving goodbye

Leaving quicksilvered fire

In pools on your way

When I exit and I recall your eyes

Leaden depth and dark

Hinting at space

Oh the richness

Too much of everything

And unborn uncreate

To be unborn, to be unborn

To be unborn, to be unborn

Like an Angel fallen whilst I saw your eyes

Leaking lights

Follow the clouds drifting like comets

Ten twenty years, where will you sleep?

You move for the Sun lie down in blossom

But a body can scarcely hold in And man may not bear

The goldform Angelic

I heard someone whisper

As you ran by me Waving goodbye