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.
warblers, all.
An earthly opus
sprung wide and free
through dawn.
on a screen of rising light;
the silence pushed
to the backs of leaves,
into cracks of stone.
is but one song;
one the waking sun
conducts
but never hears.
with a child’s air;
a timeless flow of nature
from ears to heart.
(From the book Wilderness & Love)
Dawn Chorus
In
spring, they sing:
thrushes,
wrens,warblers, all.
An earthly opus
sprung wide and free
through dawn.
In
spring, they sing—
Announcements
caston a screen of rising light;
the silence pushed
to the backs of leaves,
into cracks of stone.
To
my ears
the
dawn chorusis but one song;
one the waking sun
conducts
but never hears.
In
spring, I join in . . .
whistle
down the pathwith 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)
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