Dawn Chorus
On January 18th (and during rebroadcasts) my poem “Dawn Chorus” was read on The Open Mike Poetry Show, an hour-long program on UK radio station 107.1 FM in Winchcombe. You can listen to a recording of it on YouTube here . Dawn Chorus In spring, they sing: thrushes, wrens, warblers, all. An earthly opus sprung wide and free through dawn. In spring, they sing— Announcements cast on a screen of rising light; the silence pushed to the backs of leaves, into cracks of stone. To my ears the dawn chorus is but one song; one the waking sun conducts but never hears. In spring, I join in . . . whistle down the path with a child’s air; a timeless flow of nature from ears to heart. And that is how all my best days begin. (From the book Wilderness & Love )