North

Black cut out owl
Silver heart for a

hole in the chest where a heart should-

Bind a black feather
With wire holly crack

greening the cartil pulled from a –

Hyacinth fading
Blue as a bell

toll below grin and unearthli –

Ring round the back
With a bearfeather’s speck

blind roar of light in a crown –

Oh, mother of ice
On a cock dawning

cup in her fumble of folds –

House, hearth (penned off)
Home wide white open

slippin’ in spacing h-ome of the –

North single house`
Of the North single lady of-

North single grey roof and three floors

First Published: Tears in the Fence, Number 27, Autumn 2000