Wednesday, 23 May 2018

#BirdWords #6 Rook


I awoke
beneath a raucous rookery
a cacophony of caws
as if the ash tree, near me,
had sprouted black feathers
instead of leaves
and was complaining loudly
at such an outrageous indignation.

The rooks eventually took to the air
flapping away from the tumescent ash
like tattered shreds
of plastic silage wrappers.
In twos and threes
they sailed off across the valley
like black knights dispatched on a quest
to accomplish dark deeds
in a kingdom of green.


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