Wicklow Town, County Wicklow, Ireland

Cliff Walking, Wicklow 

Skyward, seeking the sun, making light green

With cooling ferns as tall as a tall man.

In time, heather and gorse, tough and fragrant,

Purple and gold, royal life of summer.

Above, laughing gulls and terns descend,

Cloud children, light as sun and air and rain,

Singing sky songs to the sea, the ferns, the flowers

While boulder brown harbor seals born of earth and water

Bark and bubble the surface, hill watching

While the new baby suckles his mother, laughing.

Floating, I am a dust mote on this hill

Where Earth and heaven dream, time stands still.