Alive Alive O by Greta Stoddart

Author:Greta Stoddart [Greta Stoddart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780371528
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2015-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fallacy

To a baby what is it but a shawl of light,

a draught gentling through the rungs of a cot

but the child shuffling to school is the first

to smell the dying in the black wet leaves

which could be why she finds herself breathing

all day and deeply from her new pencil-case

and when she strikes further out

across this land of rinsed light

as long as the wipers flog their thudding

measured beat, she’ll be consoled

and soon she’ll hold it all inside herself:

the raindrop, the wind’s blunt ecstasy,

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