bow down

a harrowed tree
nest-ruined
tangled leaf
 
Its bough down
bow down—
 
a-flowering-tree
 (still, it flowers)
 
Submarine blue is
where dawn occurs
  (South/South-east of here)
 
Dawn’s lightbox runs
from north blue
to south warm
 
The point between
is lit-not-lit
  (nor) seamed
 a bas-relief.

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Copyright 2016, 2018 Chris Murray
 

Bow Down from ‘bind’, first published York Literary Review, Issue #1 2016 https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkliteraryreview/files/2017/05/2016-YLR-for-download.pdf

Online URL https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/yorkliteraryreview/

Collected bind 2018 https://turaspress.ie/shop/bind-by-christine-murray/
 

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