Monday, 9 April 2018

Snow at Easter





The city’s held in a shiver of snow.
Two days back, daffodils
bounced in a spring wind;
now they are blasted and black.

Venus and Mars unpair
on this crisp night of a moon-thin,
silver dropped behind lumps of cloud
heavy on house tops:

we hold beneath weight,
resentment a yard ahead,
all light out.

She moves beyond
our stand, rising and dipping
with the year’s jarred cycle,

missing the merging
of shoot and snow and star
while the stretched web quivers.

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