Safari

I have left linen bleaching in a white sunby an inlet with its slack of winter water

where a heron breaks free from brittle light.Skin tightened with cold desires the code

of touch. Unregarded, the curvature of treesbears the mark of previous snows, grass

shrivelled, the earth bitten: winter-ravenous.Winter-ravenous, I will arrive: my feet bare.

From An Unfinished Sufficiency (Salmon Poetry, 2015)