Thought for the Week: Quaker Meeting

'Quaker Meeting' by Richard Stewart

by Richard Stewart 4th April 2014

The buddleia spikes, long unpruned,
Surge forward like spear throwers
And the gust wrenches the yew boughs
In which a collared dove is cradled,
Unperturbed. The elements are speaking
In wild discordant tongues, as if
Some Pentecostal spirit is set
To invade the calm of this