Saturday, 4 February 2017

Glastonbury Thorn





The tree’s in leaf and neat
where the robin sings
a lure close under thorns

while day ghosts by stones
cold as myth, clumped
in the yew tree’s shade

as grass falls down
a field by the Tor
where wind flicks

edges of haze;
in blurred time
each bough breaks white,

branches thicken
snow and the dead  
behind my eyes.

You are drawn
by the bird’s bright call.

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