Mark Jarman’s poem “Northern Insomnia” appeared in NER 13.3-4 (1991):

Passing out of the rain into dull cloudlight,

Through heather, a field of sleep, and rock,

Into the discovery of water

And with it the recognition of wind.

Dark water, water showing,

In a basin cut lengthwise below a hill,

Nothing of the sky, a sheepish gray,

Nothing of the eye’s desire for rest…

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