Gedicht

Stephen Romer

Side by side

Abruptly a wing . . .

Abruptly a wing may open
and come beating
out of the cloudbank

and then a whole
freewheeling company
as if the cloud had stored them

in a long embalming
of ashlight and cumulus:
strangely disinterred

they swoop upriver
in a sequence
of achieved articulations.

© 1998, Stephen Romer
From: Tribute
Publisher: Oxford/Carcanet, Oxford/Manchester

Stephen Romer

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1957)

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Close

Abruptly a wing . . .

Abruptly a wing may open
and come beating
out of the cloudbank

and then a whole
freewheeling company
as if the cloud had stored them

in a long embalming
of ashlight and cumulus:
strangely disinterred

they swoop upriver
in a sequence
of achieved articulations.

From: Tribute