crow’s landing

glimmer blades
the field’s lightly fogged
grass green struggles through
autumnal vague chill flop a crow
drops in black flurry sky-fall
awkward hops forward
eye-dark clever

 

 

Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Edinburgh, and his poems have appeared in AcumenThe French Literary ReviewEborakonInk Sweat & TearsThe Poetry Village, and other journals as well as in Black Bough anthologies. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017.