last update:
17th Sep 11
and in the shop…
collections –
“Surfacing”
and
“An Elusive State – Entering al-Chwm”
Cinnamon Press;
“Selected Poems”,
“Uncontrollable Fields”,
and
“Civilised Airs”
Seren
pamphlet collection –
“Landing”
Rack Press
Flock roosting
All my sense
of the fluidity of form
comes from the November
shapeshifting
of fifteen hundred starlings
for the mathematical,
valedictory joy of it:
they turn in on themselves
in a glove
that fills the whole
dusk above the water,
and out, and in again
but where is the hand they enclose
before they contract
suddenly to roost
on a passive black geometry
of spars,
reflecting on the day
in their small individual
darknesses
beneath a pier,
joined by diminishing afterthoughts
from afar
to perfect their form
which is hidden,
trembles, chatters and is still?
Steve Griffiths
in collection, Surfacing, 2011, Cinnamon Press,
ISBN 978-1-9070905-2-3
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