Friday, July 20, 2012

The murmuration


Starlings in danger after numbers plummet 80 per cent
Telegraph, 20 July 2012


Watch your own back yard

for that is where it will start,

the sequined flock gathers, turning
over your shit, unearthing worms

then scattering over the garden fence,
and up, into the internet,

tweeting half-truths, conjuring smoke
from murk that won’t be coaxed

to flames, turning a million
opinions, or turning a single opinion

a million times over, returning
to your home to roost as a swarm.


(c) 2012 Slush Poet

The Murmuration was featured in volume 38 of The Journal
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