The Guga Stone - Study for Petrel-Post
Study for Petrel-Post
PETREL-POST
Because his love for her must be concealed by night,
he trusts that fragile bird to bear
a message to the dark-eyed girl he’s glimpsed
while landing on the shore at Bailesiar.
He dreams about her as that petrel rides
eastward on these waves within the dark,
hoping its wings will sweep across that gap,
find her home where she will catch it, sending back
words like those he scrawled upon the note
clipped and fastened round its tiny foot
that might tell him that her small heart trembles too
and if it’s worthwhile, this pursuit
of love – or will she choose simply to remain
landbound on that shoreline, sensing only danger
in the pitch-black night that brings this bird
and in the edgy gaze of a lovelorn, wordless stranger?
