Take this book ...

I'm about to read The Travels of Marco Polo -

I've measured my shadow in The Corte del Milion -

I've woken, my eyes brimming with tears, in a dark room above water -

Now, when the tree is bare in the garden, I think of golden names - 

Circassia, Cathay, Karakorum -

I hear the story teller's voice - 

Emperors and Kings, Dukes and Marquises -

Take this book and have it read to you -

17 December 2021

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset