but along comes in the Fortnightly Review
“A Boat-Shape of Birds” a sequence of 12 poems by the remarkable Daren Breen
http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019/01/boat-shape-birds/
disturbing and reassuring, and resembling nobody very much except perhaps a taste of Ted Hughes.
Winter wears its caul,
from a moving train
a tree standing alone in snow
as if the world has been burnt away
around it,
the train moving backwards
through Time
bearing the bodies of the thieves,
dressed only in falconry hoods,
their twinned Crosses strapped tightly
among the bicycles,
when above a darkening field
a crow hovering on stalled wind
slid forward
and dropped
down
from its shelf
into an utterly different world.
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