Dichotomy
For Eva Hoffmann
Perhaps it is the darkness the division of the soul or the confusion of aloneness in a place teeming with life Some say it is weakness to see two sides of everything but still I take the middle way In your face – tranquillity in your presence ordinary day to day activities become illuminated Shopping with you in a supermarket supper on the balcony, candles lit to keep away mosquitoes, moments which have become important in my mind struggling to reach an understanding To be a participant in a world of human horror and a perfection beyond words is almost a miracle
Anne Beresford
Anne Beresford lives in Suffolk. Her Collected Poems 1967-2006 will be published September by Katabasis.