‘On the mountain I have quite a good sense of direction’

On the mountain I have quite a good sense of direction

and on the dark bog too, going out for the dawn flighting.

But it does not answer in towns

and there where the grosvenors reared up their gallows

for the high justice rather than the low

which at the same time disappointed self-murdered lovers

were buried at the crossroads with a sharpened stake

ensuring that their hearts were really broken

there I say where the streets curve strangely

bend. change their names.

You can no more define love than you can define a feel of youth