for music like the sea

(Curlew at Redmires) by Katharine Towers ©2024

 

don’t say we miss the sea –

we bring you this day our voices of water

 

we pour down our voices

we bring you our falling voices of water

 

curlee – curlee curlee

to us belong

the grass and the heathery

 

higher we fly than pipits than linnets

dropping their idle note-snippets

 

their scraps or careless oddments of thoughts

but ours are the ceaseless voices of water

 

curlee – curlee curlee

to us belong

the gorse and the heathery

 

for the past is larger than the sky

and we are made of ever and after

 

we’re made of song and shapes of song

and of the movings and the fallings of the water

 

curlee – curlee curlee

for the sea like music is everywhere

and music like the sea is everywhere –

 

© Katharine Towers, 2024

 

FOR MUSIC LIKE THE SEA © Katharine Towers, 2024