imagining myself lying down

imagining my self lying down
on the earth curve face down
in the smell of grasses herbs and flowers

there the blackbird
couched on the dry earth
silently opening and closing his beak
spanning his wings
sunning and preening
watching the bees sucking sage
the ants scurrying the red brick wall
and clouds pulling over the sky

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Veronica Satie/ Virginia Scott -Piano / Modern Pianisits out-take

the swan dream



i feel the memory
of the
swan
as she
nested
under my skirt
reminding me of
*the tin drum
a book my father
gave me when i left
home in 1970
‘something to read on the plane’
he said
‘if you want to know
about the war its
all in there ‘

twenty years later i finally
read it

*The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

swan words

The Swan Dream- Virginia Scott- Piano/ Modern Pianists/ out-take