Seeing clearly in Lent

My Ash Wednesday sermon was one sentence:

Lent is a time to see clearly.

(Alright, I padded it a bit, but not much.)

It was suggested by reading a poem by Jean  M. Watt in Janet Morley's book the heart's time: a poem a day for Lent and Easter.

Lent 

Lent is a tree without blossom, without leaf,
Barer than blackthorn in its winter sleep,
All unadorned. Unlike Christmas which decrees
The setting-up, the dressing-up of trees,
lent is a taking down, a stripping bare,
A starkness after all has been withdrawn
Of surplus and superfluous,
Leaving no hiding-place, only an emptiness
Between black branches, a most precious space
Before the leaf, before the time of flowers,
Lest we should see only the leaf, the flower,
lest we should miss the stars.

In the quiet mornings through Lent, and in other ways, this will be a bit of a theme: learning to look for and at Jesus  with clear (or, at least, clearer) eyes.

Note:
Janet Morley's book is available from all good booksellers  (as they used to say).

But on a quick search I was unable to discover much at all about Jean M Watt, though this poem has been appreciated and used by several  others.