Wind Playing with a Man's Hat by John Barnie happenstance press one of the lakes appears

one of the lakes appears like “a blue-green iris of one great eye”

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Wind Playing with a Man's Hat by John Barnie happenstance press one of the lakes appearsDeeply perceptive, always dipping below the surface of things, Wind Playing with a Man's Hat combines a plaintive honesty about change, mortality and darkness with a precise and lyrical vision that also sees the light. Never sentimental, there is a keenness of wit that penetrates to the heart of things, the poems uncurling in single sentences that reverberate with gentle, but profound moments of epiphany