The storm that has held for four days Has blown itself out And the wheels of the world Have begun again to turn ♪ From my window I watch far waves crashing on the bay White spray against black sea Distance compressing their dance into slow motion On the Clare coast I see silver rounded hills with scarped terraces A Martello tower, a ruined fort Four, maybe five headlands fading south While westwards, the Aran Islands wait for me Dark smoke like shadows on the horizon ♪ Pantheons of clouds move Across the Atlantic sky like ships White galleons Chariots or cavalcade of noble kingpins And patient lofty queens Slow procession of old gods passing by ♪ Below my house Kaleidoscope of stone walls and huddled rooftops Small haphazard fields, wild, untended A witch-faced woman walking cows uphill Whacking their arses with a long branch Suddenly smiling when she sees me Her rough arm waving ♪ The clammer of voices in my mind The woman who wonders about me The men who want me to deliver their dreams has faded I could almost no longer hear them ♪ The storm that has howled for four days Has blown itself out Nothing disturbs the calm But the rattle of my typewriter I stop ♪ In the silence The ever present past And the ever passing present Blend with the landscape to make a flavored immensity An atmosphere so strong That when I step outside I feel it beat against my skin And cluster headily 'round me As I walk through it As I breathe it As I become it