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These poems come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.
Its the way its always been:
to reach the sea, to stand
watching, waiting; to know
that nothing can be unravelled
to its core
but is like reflecting
where wild flowers
gathered in a vase, framed
by a shore cottage window
make of themselves
a sea-wide subject:
the beauty
of things together.
A blackbird sings
and the song echoes
in fragments of memory.
Joy Mead is a member of the Iona Community and the author of The One Loaf, Making Peace in Practice and Poetry
