Seeing you
color in the day
under
and over the lines
through the hedge
glancing your reflection
through the soft blue carpet. Gill McGrath©
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Gill McGrath© April 22. today 6.15am ~~ ‘It’s color not colour.OK!’©
Early Bird
“Passenger”
Walking round Chicago,
I have smuggled you as cargo,
though you are far away unknowing.
By the time we get to Salt Lake
I have packed you in my suitcase,
ironed the creases from my own remembering
She said Bird, why?
We wound our way to Texas
where I summoned remote hexes
and I sent them across dust and oceans.
In Phoenix, Arizona I had the notion
I might phone you,
but there it lived and died, a notion.
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
We came up on Ohio,
I have you chewed on like a biro.
You are a sum I am no closer to deciphering.
We came up to Minneapolis,
all fizzy blood and twitchy fists.
I buried you in a day of snowing.
She said Bird, why? I said Bird, why?
Oh my satellite, oh my passenger.
mother blackbird takes a two minutes dip
and back she goes to sit
before lights out!
she’s there!
the hedge (where the nest is) at 8
[sky at 7.30pm]
Gill McGrath© April 16
nothing but blue skies
finding the shade
cooling off
and feeling hot
while mother bird sat.
Gill McGrath© April 15 [8.00pm the sun finally set]
But first….
Over the fields beyond the trees
and back to where pink mists the lines
-Changes around the sky in 30 minutes and afterglow, as it was, on landscape opposite the sun! Then a beautiful sunny day…….
11.30am
Gill McGrath© April 11. Sunrise 6.30am + this morning
from a rather scruffy garden hedge
that needs a cut
that will have to wait
a bird can see
gold…
6.49am
6.49am
7.10 am… beyond the wires a high white mist.. not cloud…the sun
8.06am
Back at the hedge….look close… she’s sitting there!
Gill McGrath©
Daddy Blackbird on guard duty………
Mother Blackbird sitting in her nest. She is there watching….look for the orange beak and a little black eye!
Gill McGrath © April 9. around 7.40pm~~~
breathing
in the pink and blue
a pigeon sits has found the moon!
sun climbs the line
is out of view
where
the pigeon walks
the lady smiles
stretching through the mist….. Gill McGrath© [April 8]
5.45am
5.45am
6.05am
6.06am
6.20am
6.33am
6.35 am [sunrise. first glimpse]
6.36am
6.39am
6.39am
7.00am
a tree
same lady
hid there yesterday
in a mist
7.00am
Gill McGrath© April 8
is saying
I can’t see
a thing…..
there ain’t no sun and
the horizon has gone!
[late sunrise (!)photographed around 7.30 am today
no change at 10.30 am so far]
Gill McGrath © April 7
in a pink and blue mist
by the whispering moon
as the quarter bell rings
…its where the bird sits
the peach air breathes
dew drips from the gate
the spangling grass sings
[titles of photo sequence from 6.27 until 7.07 am this morning] Gill McGrath©
(6.45am) yes it did!
Gill McGrath© April 6
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