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FOUR POEMS BY ANGUS OGILVY

Coruscation

Light accentuates dark.

 

In winter dawns

I turn on my lamp

and morning rolls over to midnight.

 

Dark accentuates light.

 

Relinquishing gloom

I am dazzled

by the lustre of the universe.

 

It doesn’t matter that

the house burns down in the night

in a preemptive attack on murk.

 

It doesn’t matter that

hope’s slim candle splutters

on its see-saw dance with dread.

 

Only my light,

which accentuates

and is accentuated

by dark,

shall pass.

 

©Angus D.H. Ogilvy

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