Notes on Architects
Gold lambs’ tails on hazel break the pause
anticipate the Equinox
dipper flies, a white spark over Rothay
lands at the curve, pilfers
a swatch of moss, returns
up-river. North
a pair of grey wagtails, dart
yellow switch of flight, hurdle
over wire fence, descend
onto chains of mole-prints
ferret the dark, rich earth
parcelled with worms
delivered
by anonymous, silhouettes of soil
tossed to the surface,
displaced from the tunnels
their bodies sculpt
below
shreds of utterings
from beneath
the axis of the ground
Jessica Sneddon is a Masters by Research student and emerging poet. Her work focuses on hidden narratives in the natural world and the connection between micro and macro species. She has been published in Tears in the Fence.