Donegal
On gray days, you seem infinitely wide
Hills rolling like gentle ripples across
A rock pool underneath drizzle and mist
Emptied by sun, refilled by roaring tide
All of a sudden, on a clear, still day
The curtains of mystery depart and
Your true breadth is revealed, from cove to cove
across lakes and in uncanny ways
through old, resting geological forms
Sprinkled with sand and shale, held up by loose
threads of heavenskys that betray no sense
of the certainty that rain will return