[for Trevor]
I am as much as anything
that something which gave me
so many connected
with what could fire
a sunlight characteristic
if quieter this time:
the shortening days
and some savage asides,
but today brings
yet more books
and just as the real summer
we look ahead for better.
I try to find somewhere
of honest appraisal
in the emergence of these days,
so little to utter
without a bit of warmth
yet I am glad
to have this intellectual
independence more reminiscent
of somewhere there was no doubt
and I believe in fully.
It must have been
in the genes
this dappled characteristic
as we will now call it.