Poems from ‘Signature’
thistle roll
thistle roll
twig sphere
scatters a
thicket clump
looks alive, it
is red-tipped
a feather-blown
bag-blown
bird-corpse let lie
its throat opened out
purple the thistle
-blown hue,
purple the cry
tear
a field of ewes, their winter wool loose,
blown down to the rusted gate.
a flower clock banks each moment to the birthing,
their mothering.
their rich milk a wellspring.
spring now, and
a breeze tickles the white clouds,
winter coat shed, wind still barbs her cries
they ignore her labouring
Thistle Roll and Tear are © C. Murray
Signature is published by Bone Orchard Press, and edited by Michael McAloran. It is my second chapbook, and it can be bought via LULU. A sample chapbook called Three Red Things is available here.
s ignature is a beautifully wrought collection of short/ imagistic/ surrealistic-impressionistic poems
ISBN 9781291797046 Copyright Christine Murray Edition First Publisher Bone Orchard Press Published 23 March 2014 |
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