Mary Evans - Poems and Pictures

Picture 13752356, photograph by Emma Trevarthen, Â© Mary Evans / Historic England

Snow Over Grasmere
by Noel Duffy

The snow falls down in cascading pleats
catching in dried leaves and branches
as it slowly drifts onto the forest canopy,
floating downward from the darkening sky
in eddies and currents, and descending into
our element. It softens the landscape
to a cushioned layer, soon turning all
to white by the riverâ€™s edge. A solitary falcon
swoops down from the flurry, sweeps across
the whitened world below, scrutinises
the frozen scene, then takes to wing and disappears,
the snowflakes continuing to land in turn,
dissolving in clusters on the waterâ€™s brim,
returning to their element in a different form,
the singular structure of each untangling
into the molecules of their making, melting to
a common unity before forever fading within it.

Noel Duffy was born in Dublin. He has published four collections of poetry to date, most recently Street Light Amber, a narrative sequence of love poems set in his native city. He has twice been a recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary for Literature and more recently he was awarded the Patrick & Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. He lives in Dublinâ€™s dockland district.

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