Friday 27 November 2015

from, A Country Diary




Wenlock Edge (fourth)


it comes, it flowers
ivy flowers
comes from feeding on ivy
from the wasps feeding on the wings
and wasps
wings of hoverflies
of hoverflies
and of hoverflies

do as do butterflies
tortoiseshell butterflies
as the small tortoiseshell
the light is ragged
small light is held
in greenbottles ragged
held in their wings
the itinerant hoverflies
greenbottles, their wings
like flakes that the itinerant hoverflies like
flakes of mica know that
of mica or shreds
not know
or shreds of cellophane
or may not
of cellophane
they may
they may
or may
they may

now broken
now the end
before the end
broken that idea
flowers before that idea may --
    ivy flowers may 
travel in the ivy
travel in the dreaming
in the, in the insect of dreaming
insect wings
a moment of wings 
   in, and a moment in, their buzzing lives
and their buzzing restless, restless lives 







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