Vocation
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It was a muffled silence through which the old man trod softly In the direction of the sea Only the distant hiss of traffic on the bridge And the odd bird call, like vowels caught in a dewy web Some cars betrayed their drivers' defiance Looming from the dimness unlit Or with a single offside light As though heralding the cyclops of a bike twinkling out of the gloom The world seemed contained by a dome The colour of ageing lace fraying in a neglected city window Black rock crosshatched the shoreline A rough draft instead of the usual bold and confident lines Where the shallow sea at least was still and clear Yet the other side of the bay was not only invisible but seemingly gone Even the trees hunkered down, were huddled ghosts against it And the oystercatchers gathered As a platoon of bored infantrymen on an outcrop Awaiting orders for the final push Herons plucked halfheartedly at rockpools As ducks chuckled further out While a single hunched kingfisher contemplated its insubstantial reflection Droplets of moisture collected in the old man's long hair And jewelled the damp droop of his beard Just as later it would cling stubbornly to the wooded valleys Even after he had gone home Where, sodden, job done The fogcatcher would wring his wages from hair and beard To take stock The sun was shining, the air was warm And the sky had cleared
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