Roger Garfitt
Splinters

after a song by Atahualpa Yupanqui

They are company

of a kind,

these splinters 1 am feeding

to the fire:

 

something said under her breath,

something breathed in her sleep.

 

They are constancy

of a kind,

these hill paths I have chosen

at every turn:

 

somewhere our spirits walk,

somewhere we talk in our sleep.