Remote Glen-Dwellers By Angus Martin

Of this monstrously tormented
world, we know too much
that puts our minds wrong
and besides we cannot change it;

better perhaps the ignorance
of remote glen-dwellers in history
for whom the news was local
a trickling of small events

all comprehensible and sure
like the sun going down predictably
behind a hill that was always there
asleep in the bed of its name.