Reading Borges ...

I'm reading Borges -

I'm in a library without end -

Gauchos drink cane brandy -

There are knife fights across the river -

Sscholars read ancient texts - 

They recite the ninety nine names of God - 

I take no notice of the flow of time -

I treasure strange names - 

I dream a golem - 

I see with a tiger's eye - 

I cross a treeless plain at sunset - 

Someone, scornfully, pulls a trigger - 

11 December 2021

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset