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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

Bestiary in Open Tuning

‘Bestiary in Open Tuning’ by Anthony Lawrence

by Anthony Lawrence •
November 2006, no. 286

Blessings and praise
to the dark entanglement of caught branches
I continue to see,
after years of crossing the causeway,
as a black swan
holding her place in the current, her head
held resolute and serene,
her cygnets the shadows that advance and recede
in the eddies she makes going nowhere.

 


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