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Jo Bell
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them,all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and feather
against half-formed clouds, greybonnet winds.
The circled stones lay under them unnoticed,
and none of our paths relevant to their high view.
They flew, it seemed, without direction. But they flew.
© 2014, Jo Bell
Jo Bell
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1967)
Jo Bell is a unique force in British poetry, bringing a large personality and boundless energy to both writing and promoting it. She is a poet and performer with a blog, a website and a newly reissued book. She runs an immensely successful web-based project called 52 and declares that her main work is ‘connecting other poets’. Her various projects include collaborative work, poems for public sp...
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ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
There must have been a score of them,all lift-and-dip-and-fluster, beak and feather
against half-formed clouds, greybonnet winds.
The circled stones lay under them unnoticed,
and none of our paths relevant to their high view.
They flew, it seemed, without direction. But they flew.
ROOKS OVER AVEBURY
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