“Made for your hand”

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
— St Augustine

Somewhere on this earth is set
the antipode of Pebblebed,
where no-one ever sifted
for a sea-smooth stone,
their hand a perfect shape
for its comfortable weight.

Somewhere over the horizon
of my sharp-edged Ithaka
I sense a waiting antipode,
where someday I shall find 
I am that stone, sea-smooth
and shaped to my eternal home.

Recording of my reading hosted on the Wildfire Words website

Clare Bryden “Made for your hand”, text and audio, Wildfire Words, Open Submissions 7, January-February 2025, online.