Christine Hume, p.5
OLD SONG KEEPS ARRIVING
from a rock jetty
five monks ease their hems
into the river the same
man by the same local bridge
in German birds are vulgar
someone says four views
from the tree are all
we need here remembering
a beach would be distant
as eyes filling up for the winter
which freezes our hair in clumps
of leaves clanking against ice oaks
the whole way home a Tern
passes through watching scores
its eye descants the listening
aspect of the bird reveals this
we ask it for another instead
and finger its trembling (we ask it)
from a rock jetty
five monks ease their hems
into the river the same
man by the same local bridge
in German birds are vulgar
someone says four views
from the tree are all
we need here remembering
a beach would be distant
as eyes filling up for the winter
which freezes our hair in clumps
of leaves clanking against ice oaks
the whole way home a Tern
passes through watching scores
its eye descants the listening
aspect of the bird reveals this
we ask it for another instead
and finger its trembling (we ask it)
1. a rock jetty]broken floes
2. ease]erase
5.] where birds migrate in constellations
9. beach]orchestration]admission
11. freezes]resolves]dissolves
13. home]snowblind
14. watching]zeroing
15. descants]gives way
2. ease]erase
5.] where birds migrate in constellations
9. beach]orchestration]admission
11. freezes]resolves]dissolves
13. home]snowblind
14. watching]zeroing
15. descants]gives way