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# Just - A poem
- URL: https://www.cambriastories.net/just-a-poem/
- Published: 2022-12-02T12:29:45.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-28T11:03:54.000Z
- Description: Serialisation of 'Waiting for a Hunter's Moon' by Simon Smith
- Author: Cambria Stories
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738062183431, #Import 2025-01-28 11:03

Just then –  
a subtle sound,  
a turn of air.

Or a turn in my thoughts.  
I catch things readjusted,  
just so, although  
I could have sworn to an arrival,

Quick, you know,  
something like a hawk  
threading a forest’s tangled boles  
(only just),

And that swerve,  
that bright verve  
left its trace  
here  
and  
here  
in the stream’s clear lacing,  
the pagan thrust of green;  
green is the grass;  
green are the leaves;  
green is the seam  
that starts in this,  
just this   
just now.

Just.

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Serialisation of ‘*Waiting for a Hunter’s Moon*’ by Simon Smith (with permission). This book is published by and can be purchased from **Cambria Books** [HERE](https://www.cambriabooks.co.uk/product/waiting-for-a-hunters-moon/?ref=cambriastories.net)

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