Kim Crowder

Four poems



1.
Heartsease


on unsown arable
  late spring
three coloured
  viola
striving to flower
  heartsease
pledged
  to the bee
consigned
to the plough

2.
Cirrus

You’ll never hear the click of their huge feathered<br> heels, never quite catch them full sight at the zenith when daylight hours reach full stretch and atmosphere pressures rise to dizzying heights – those immense mythical sky-mares, ethereal equines, kelpies maybe who’ve relinquished the rivers. Crossing aerial country they go barrelling by like the kind who’ll buck and plunge to unseat you then defy and refuse to be caught. Running in herds on air-headed instinct they soar clear of the highest hilltop’s bar  – lashing mile-long white tails whisking the yolk of the sun in a speedwell sky.

(First published by Wildfire Words
https://wildfire-words.com/os6-june-aug-2024/#Kim-Crowder)

3.
Discourse


in a discourse of
echoes
  dawn to dusk
two finches
disputing
  each question
an answer
  every answer
a question
in a discourse of
echoes uttered
  dawn to dusk

4.
Wearing On

Time to mix and match the polar fleece de-moth briar and bracken prickled tweeds ease on the ice-blue sweater’s mosaic yoke diamonds snowflakes noughts and stars drape dove-grey shawls early dusk’s fine-spun swathes of mist shrug into rutting deer russets duns and drabs of cankered leaves hazy pearl of waning sun dab pulse-points wrist and throat with choking odours reeking palls heather smoulder lag beds in thermal layers re-buff scuffed chestnut brogues bottle ambered apple inky bramble shelve rowan’s rubies glazed and jellied pick brittle umbels snap crisp stems cherish summer’s fading relics kindle fires stride into winter criss-cross plaid-patterned fields belts of plough tracks gouged by outsize tyres in stark green stripes of barley’s aftermath.

(First published in: Published in Skirting Around Issue 4, Feb. 2025 https://www.skirtingaround.org/_files/ugd/05adf2_f885aeab27674000962429e62246f88f.pdf )

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