Reed warbler song
etched with green daggers,
elongated spears of leaves,
deep in the shadowy murk of
wet stems and skins:
a songburst like a child’s
rattle, but just one phrase
breaks into the alder-
leaden air, into willow bows,
extended over a pond fed by the
Regent’s Canal.
© Daniel James Greenwood 2015
Daniel Greenwood 