Weathering

Écrit par Chloë Rain

Weathering by Fleur Adcock

Literally thin-skinned, I suppose, my face
catches the wind off the snow-line and flushes
with a flush that will never wholly settle.

Well:
that was a metropolitan vanity,
wanting to look young for ever, to pass.

I was never a pre-Raphaelite beauty,
nor anything but pretty enough to satisfy
men who need to be seen with passable women.

But now that I am in love with a place
which doesn't care how I look, or if I'm happy,

Happy is how I look, and that's all.

My hair will turn grey in any case,
my nails chip and flake, my waist thicken,
and the years work all their usual changes.

If my face is to be weather-beaten as well

That's little enough lost, a fair bargain
for a year among lakes and fells, when simply
to look out of my window at the high pass
makes me indifferent to mirrors and to what
my soul may wear over its new complexion.

images : Chloë Rain

images : Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain

Chloë Rain is the Founder of Explore Deeply. She has been trained in ceremonial practices and shamanic healing techniques from two living traditional medicine paths, one in North America and one in South America. She has apprenticed under two indigenous medicine people for more than a decade, is a certified Native American Healing Arts Practitioner, and has a Masters degree in Indigenous Studies from the Arctic University of Norway where she spent four years in the Arctic circle, researching the sacred landscape of Sápmi, the land of the indigenous Sámi people.

Par son travail, elle espère inciter davantage de personnes à écouter l'appel de leur âme et les amener à se regarder d'un peu plus près, à regarder l'environnement naturel qui les entoure et à regarder les autres personnes et nos croyances de séparation, de race, de culture et de religion.

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