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Prayer

            Sundown, last night.

Looking down, over the sea fog, and Ailsa Craig, and the Firth of Clyde.  Distillery at the coast.

From my garden,
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland


 

Prayer

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Carol Ann Duffy
   

Taken on: March 18, 2021

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Camera:	Olympus E-M1
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	1/2500 sec
Focal Length:	75mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-0.7 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Creative (Slow speed)
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Saturation:	High
Color Space:	sRGB
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