One afternoon cloud held
by two church steeples
All other clouds held
by vertices & silhouettes
Cotton liaisons
between those clouds
Rims illumined
by dimming suns
Chariot descending
Phoebus to the West
“Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right;
north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few
seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east,
east . . .”
(Very last lines of Aldous Huxley’s novel ‘Brave New World’ )
Vanessa Vie
Picture by Vanessa Vie
From “Open Windows, Open Doors” [New Departures 2020/2021]. The book is available to order directly from New Departures via [email protected] OR via www.vanessavie.co.uk OR on order from Waterstones https://www.waterstones.com/book/open-windows-open-doors/vanessa-vie/9780902689275
