Savings
All this the hedgerow saves
from the underworld:
a wire of blood-drops
necklace of blisters
and the dots of crabs
pressed on the sky in yellow braille
or stashed under leafmould
the blackbird’s counting-book
the odd dark sloe
dried like a raisin
that and the rain’s
midwinter silver
too soon spent
on buying back the sun
Stuart Henson’s most recent collection is The Odin Stone (Shoestring Press). Feast of Fools, a book of poems and scraperboard drawings in collaboration with artist Bill Sanderson, is due in 2015. This is his website: stuarthenson.co.uk