Kith by Jo Bell

Author:Jo Bell [Bell, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781911027003
Publisher: Nine Arches Press
Published: 2015-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

and April falls across the parish like stained glass;

like rest for the broken-backed. The diarist

writes one word to stand for spring – Luscinia!

Colour blurs along the quickened hedge

into the woodsmoke hours. The nightingale

loops speechless syllables on every thorn.

Attention, after all, is prayer. Nothing goes unseen.

Mallaig

One early morning slant with rain

a woman steps out for a first smoke on the quay

and understands that there,

between the greyscale ketch and ferry,

is a whale. There’s tension in the tons of brine,

a shift of waters, wait –

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