Iktsuarpok

 

 

Iktsuarpok - Inuit: the feeling of anticipation when you're expecting someone. It refers to the impatient excitement that makes you constantly check to see if they're coming

 

Sometimes, I still feel like yesterday.

Looking out of the window,

I seek for your indigo clouds on my sunny day

When dry winds pick up pace

Seeking dankness in lonely eyes

 

Slowly starts the drizzle of lost years -

The cracked soils on the dried-out slopes

Will take years to recover

Better still, let it build into a downpour

That will wash away the soils of yesterday

 

Alas, my lonely cottage today stares in sad envy

Desiccating in the leeward slopes

Of forever’s autumn

The clouds, rains and emerald hills

Disappear in a moment’s fade

 

But I can see still your blue umbrella –

Visible from far as you walk,

Adding colours of brightness to

Forlorn footsteps forgotten now

On the listless layers of a lonely hill

The joys of walking out in the rains

Without an umbrella –

Something I never learned,

As I stare at a neatly folded umbrella

Lying in wait for no more storms

As I wonder now, perhaps you left it behind

Not that I can stay dry

But that I have the courage to walk out again

When a deluge brings back rainy days

The wetness, petrichor of hope…

 

8^th March. 2024