2626

the sky’s
squinting light
behind the eagle wings

2625

grandfather clock
the chid’s eyes
squeezed with the chimes

2624

parting the waters
to glide into rest
the geese’s long journey

2623

fizzling themselves
to the gull prints
the half-spent waves

2622

in a moonless breeze
dodging
the after-swoop of an owl

2621

mantelpiece
all our photographs together
before that divorce

2620

these few local nests
we showed the children
pummelled with hail

2619

the sunset’s bled…
taking my partner inside
the rhymes of Blake

2618

even some beauty
in my phone’s close-up
the crow staring back

2617

in the blackened hailstorm
we can only watch
the dinting of cars