Poem of the week: Morning star

A new work by Chris Murray

The day lightens from cold
to blue. A glint of her caught
in crow's diadem as he wheels

home. We are bound to hard things,
to wood, steel and wire –
Who would hear heartsongs

in the cacophony of words
tumult-born? Day is carried
in by crow's harsh heralding

through and above those
stormy crosscurrents.
Soaring, his fluid gyration.

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Even now, now, his harsh
heralding is the one true thing.

Chris Murray,  poet and essayist.
Chris Murray, poet and essayist.

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