IN A COLD ROOM
1952-57
    
    

 

REFLECTING SEASHELL

Poem: Alasdair Gray © 2005

 

That death will break this salt-fresh cockle-hand
is simply wisdom. Horror not, nor pain
poison the sunlight, though they haunt the brain.
The fact casts shadows which have paralysed the will
in error, for these shadows cannot kill
Fearing becomes reflection
.....................................rippled in a stream
..............................................................of thought
...........................................upon the sand
where death will break this salt-fresh cockle-hand.

  
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