Sport 32: Summer 2004
Kerry Popplewell — Evanescence
Kerry Popplewell
Evanescence
after Rilke
Leaves are falling, falling in water—
and the water falling
slow over stones.
Around us, minutes are falling—
a mist too fine to be visible
but we sense the damp on our skin
as we sense our cells dissolving
faster than sunlight which flows
across the green flank of a hill.