A Wider View

• "searched for spaces in the smoke-filled sky to stack his dreams"
• to keep his "newborn safe from harm"
• "eyes dry with dust from twelve hours combing flax"
• "he craved the comfort of a wider view"
• "din of engines, looms and shuttles with imagined peals of ringing bells"
• "today, my footsteps echo"
• "timeless in the flux of time"
• "while the curve of past and future generations arcs between us"