The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy

Author:Carol Ann Duffy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466895850
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds

Eldezar and Asama Yama, 1783,

erupted violently; a Great Fogg

blending incredible skies over Europe.

In London, Luke Howard was ten.

The sky’s lad then.

Smitten,

he stared up evermore; saw

a meteor’s fiery spurt,

the clamouring stars;

what the moon wouldn’t do;

but loved clouds most –

dragons and unicorns;

Hamlet’s camels, weasels and whales;

the heads of heroes;

the sword of Excalibur, lit

by the setting sun.

Mackerel sky,

mackerel sky, not long wet,

not long dry.

And knew

love goes naming,

even a curl of hair – thus, Cirrus.

Cumulus. Stratus. Nimbus.

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