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Poems

Movement

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

Ten minutes — or less — before we step down at one
of the ‘London Terminals’, ploughed land restarts
and the newest cow-parsley spreads by the side
of fields that held on through the April drought.


The immediate foreground is dashing on past
a stationary middle-distance while
a forest on the horizon, darkly capped
by clouds, races forward at the same speed.


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