Poem: ‘Holy Mountain’
John Holloway, 19 March 1981
In the abyss of distance. You see it blink at you, graven over our breakfast table, from the open door where steam from porridge mists the peak of the holy mountain, or so
they term it, and I would not lightly be heavy-handed over the old volcanic cone across that yawn of bog-blossom, of bee-, of heat-filled emptiness, with sparse birds, and...