The Giant's Causeway

(in fact a revision of a previously published version)

The Giant’s Causeway, August 2, 2015, morning

Imagined footfalls on basalt

overshadow my blue path stroll.

The blue Atlantic froths

against black rock—

white fletchings

needling

waxed tidewater.

color study

work in progress

Hod carrier

Hod carrier

FT

But to repair masonry with someone,

even (as now, or then-in-now) only

to help out as a friend—that I say

is to form a bond, a mortared seal

in the gardening time of youth.

True it is that our readings conflicted.

Some slight increased our differences,

like mortar or brick giving

just enough to add a fissure

in a wall that still is sound.