R L Raymond

The adoption of rituals

The adoption of rituals

there are certain
 traces
reminders of his past
hidden amid the newness
definite lines and curves
still distinguishable
in the alienness

the road he walks
 – still unmapped –
criss-crosses the denuded land
reminding him of the part
in a changeling’s hair

almost a memory
just off kilter
just off

above
in the swirl
of cumulonimbus incus
the mammatus clouds form
 and hang
  liminal

where the greys
 and whites
  and rumours of blue
converge
 ahead
   beyond
the landscape smears
blended into horizon
smudged into sky
a place
 an event
   a recollection
not yet revealed
but whispered
in the gusts
blowing the grit
from his boots

R L Raymond, Originally published in "Unbroken"


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