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Primary Colours

 

 

 

When Sarah went out painting in the wind,

A gust flew the palette from her hand

And splattered with primary colours

The footprints of wild animals.

She carried home ‘Low Cloud n Mweelrea’

And ‘Storm over Lackakeely’, leaving

Burnt Umber behind in for the mountain hare

And for the otter Ultramarine.


 

                               —Michael Longley  (1939- )

 

       from Snow Water

       (Wake Forest University Press, 2004)

 

 

 

COMMENTARY


“By virtue of his imaginative responsiveness man is a creative partner in the movement of reality toward its truth; and this creatively formative force is exposed to deformative perversion, if the creative partner imagines himself to be the sole creator of truth.” In Search of Order 38.

 

 

 

 

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