Excellent piece of work Grassy. One of your very best.
bw
James
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Starlings
>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:29:36 -0000
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> Starlings
>
>Words are translated into a tingle of wire,
>faint jazz in the starlings' toes.
>They perch on paragraphs, pleas,
>
>punctuations, twanging on the taut lines.
>Sometimes they splash-bomb the grass
>or hack the air with harsh music.
>
>They are the beat birds, vagabonds,
>swaggerers, loud as peacock feathers.
>ragged black and drab, swinging
>
>between poles, rainbowed like oil on a wet road.
>In the evening they rise and fly to secret roosts,
>bearing messages. The wires are lighter
>
>in the dark. Your voice sounds different
>on the phone without the weight
>of beaks and hollow bones.
>
> grasshopper
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