come-bye flock on rubber hauled
shod wheel shod foot and all gear weighted
tread calcite veins through rise and fall
choked boundaries bounded
to shield a landscape from this temper
‘till haemorrhaged
into metre feet as point directed
tomorrow’s fossils mill the past
stare sullen cow and penny bough
where present tears of history trickle
from a face not lately washed
but melts of grey and echo smoothed
as nature veils a self-harm scar
up swallows soar and climbers poke
to place a kiss upon a wound
that hurts still
of choice
upon reflection
i ponder by the tarn
where water sits and waits
in mirrored silence
watching
the night crow’s wings
spread shot-peppered through
to the forge wrought skies beyond the
ivory mouths of moon sirens
shod wheel shod foot and all gear weighted
tread calcite veins through rise and fall
choked boundaries bounded
to shield a landscape from this temper
‘till haemorrhaged
into metre feet as point directed
tomorrow’s fossils mill the past
stare sullen cow and penny bough
where present tears of history trickle
from a face not lately washed
but melts of grey and echo smoothed
as nature veils a self-harm scar
up swallows soar and climbers poke
to place a kiss upon a wound
that hurts still
of choice
upon reflection
i ponder by the tarn
where water sits and waits
in mirrored silence
watching
the night crow’s wings
spread shot-peppered through
to the forge wrought skies beyond the
ivory mouths of moon sirens