Colin Simms
(for Joy, amongst animals and their images)
(for J.U.)
The Ones I’ve met that glow as well as smoulder
presences which the red eye cannot turn from until it is older
-bears, walrus, rhino, carcajou, puma, tiger, bison-is- ‘buffalo’,
have a brittleness a grit in the fingers of feeling charcoal
-- eagles, great falcons before taught talons, Great Grey Owl
eagle-owl, capercaillie and yet also wrens and shrikes
shooting darts at the rest of nature as if neither nor embers
looking through you: hunting-cats, cacomistle, mink and marten
coyote and wolf; hunting-dogs and hyenas, Michelangelo’s Archers
the tug-of-war, pull, pull, taut arm-tendons all direct at target
for these you need ochre pencil, ochre charcoal, and a soot black
red and black appropriate communication for predation for soul
the grey-black is the grey-black of Lambertini, Morini’s Strega
but on the words written are sounds with again such strong
colours.
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