Came out of work to the news this evening ... dear Clive ...

From ‘The River in the Sky’ - Clive James

If my ashes end up in an hourglass
I can go on working.
Patterns of gravity
Will look like writing.
Remember me, sings Dido,

Wind shapes the dunes
Above which swallows stream
To Europe, with a pit stop at Gibraltar
Reminding them that Africa was soft
With sliding surfaces of singing sand.
The whole world, if you wait long enough,
Is full of falling.