Skyroad

By Skyroad

Tarbert Ferry Rooks

Alongside cars waiting to cross the Shannon, 
two rooks came flapping and striding, play-pecking,
leap-rooking, jousting, taking off only to swirl back
tangled in each other’s downdraft, feather-blades fanned
lethal and glossy as polished pauldrons, gorgets...
 
(from 'Buskers')

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