Just After Blackpool Sands
I am an eagle burnt out on stale air
my style cramped.
I’m as silent as a fingernail.
Bring back the chime of feathers brushing
against the curving breeze.
The upward drown of fate.
A slow valley I know not far hoards wings like these
stumbled across
sudden,
a road yawns there over swirling cliffs;
sea below upholds the fall.
Frog-in-throat but I shout
from our fleeing car racing the bends,
‘look there,
BUZZARD,
Big Boy.’
But they doze, blindness washes over their rim of understanding,
they are bought off with half-truths
nothingness clanks and sounds between their flat ears.
I know the smell of peat has never fought
inside their nostrils.
I watch the hunter fade like gunshot echo,
splintering into killer country. All gone. Round the corner
and am alone amongst four pairs of soft eyes.
His
are focused on two fields of vision, in one the hare
is stretching out through blurred through grass,
torn up and half missing in the other.
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