Prayer
Prayer
by John Burnside
Give me a little less
with every dawn:
colour, a breath of wind,
the perfection of shadows,
till what I find, I find
because it’s there,
gold in the seams of my hands
and the night light, burning.
‘Prayer’ by John Burnside
(Copyright © John Burnside, 2007)
Reproduced by permission of A.M. Heath
on behalf of the estate of John Burnside.
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