Colville's People, by Carol Malyon: Wind from the Sea

	wind from the sea		from a painting by Andrew Wyeth
	precise brush strokes they record how land & people touch define their edges details this is the way we try to memorize our lives small cracks of light through a dark blind lace curtains waver by a window light & shadow overlap in fragile patterns curtains try to hold the wind but only touch it for a moment as it slips through textured fingers we remember a curtain a blind a window as though we could make sense of things fit our past in a design all those images revenants that reappear in photographs & dreams