29. Kit Kelen's 'misted in the lower reaches' - inviting Jane Frank into the garden

 

misted in the lower reaches

 

all up with

shaky from the branch, the air

 

first bird

invents itself

 

it’s from same old singing

 

makes light of it

 

tips wing towards

 

little dinosaur

so eloquent wordless

 

fleet, dizzy with to watch

generic

 

in birdiness

all tangent, vector

 

it’s knowing without thinking

we mainly get about

 

same day lovely

where everything is first imagined

has to be, how else?

 

this now the bird

out of the box

 

then like a cat

mouth full of feathers

garden all mine

 

I bring you

the bird

Picture above - Bruno Liljefors’ 1885 ‘A Cat with a Young Bird in its Mouth’

Bruno Liljefors