Poetry

Monday, 6 July 2020

Static Swans

White swan black peat
What contrast of purity
The lamb bleats
The polar bear's ferocious teeth
Black swan white peat

Turn on, turn off
The television static
In a graveyard cough
So gravelly and grave and sooty
And sweep
So much blurring, fuzzy channels
I can get no sleep
White swan, black peat

Like a plesiosaurus
Of the ancient stage
Long necked nessy,
From Walter Scott's page
White knights, black page
Black night, white sheet
White swan, black peat


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