GRIANAM
Grianam –
Sacred to the Sun Goddess –
Circle of Stones –
desecrated...
for the whirl of the wheel
and race
of time,
dancing in and out,
reel to reel;
a thousand Eves,
running up and down
Jacob's Ladder;
Woodside to Grandholm Mills,
where young women weave
rainbow webs,
in the Sun Shop
Hattersleys clatter
cloth for Crombie coats,
for the discerning gentleman
and the foreman calls the tune,
– when Eve span.
At the Crombie Visitor Centre,
faded images of Eve adorn
asset-stripped walls.
Bargain-hunters covet
ransomed remnants.
Behind the scenes,
voices of generations echo
across tentered time and sunlight
filters the web of deserted workshops;
desecrated...
Circle of Stones –
Sacred to the Sun Goddess –
Grianam.
Val Plante
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