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Retired from 10 years in the Canadian Navy, and 28 years in the Canadian Diplomatic Service, with postings in Beijing, Mexico City, Sri Lanka, Romania, Abu Dhabi, Guyana, Ireland, Trinidad, and, last but not least, India.

Monday, 4 May 2009

Quantum Mechanics, and a Walk in the Fog





The dog was uninvolved,
sniffing,
           and shifting 
between his ever-varying
Realities,
validated
by his Nose.

Fog, for me,

always enables countless 
gateways:

the smell of grass in the summer air

intoxicating
a five-year-old  boy,
a seascape in 1946:

the moonpath from

a Poya Moon, and
the Galle Face Hotel,
patio all a-silver
in that magick light:

the rough security of my Father’s hand

in mine,
during long 
and happy walks home:

the song of the Howler monkeys

at dawn
at the Water Conservancy Lodge
on the Guyanese savannah:

true memories all,

located at different temporal loci
along the serendipitous path
of my life,
but then again,
          then again

the fog shifts,

and we huddle,
awaiting the blessing
of the Stone Circle,
while the smaller of the two suns
broke dawn
with showers of violet
     and then
          and then

a grey glimpse

of something
     so incredible,
          so phenomenally
beautiful
            that ...

Dog perused 

guardrail scents
judiciously,
while an eastern sun
drank away the mist,
and any quantum foam
that may have
remained.

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Think but this, and all is mended:
That you have but slumb'red here,
While these visions did appear."


Puck’s epilogue to A Midsummer Night’s Dream