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Beside the artist\u2019s pool<\/strong><\/p>\n Small birds brink more a plaything where they execute and azure\u2014each bird\u2019s drives it to\u2014 one fading mark to each white breast a swerve of white <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martyn Crucefix<\/strong> has translated Rilke\u2019s Duino Elegies<\/em> and Sonnets to Orpheus<\/em> (both Enitharmon Press) and the Daodejing<\/em>\u00a0(Enitharmon, 2016). Most recent original poetry: The Lovely Disciplines<\/em> (Seren, 2017) and forthcoming from Hercules Editions, Cargo of Limbs<\/em> (Autumn, 2019). More at http:\/\/www.martyncrucefix.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beside the artist\u2019s pool Small birds brink the garden hedge its glossy tall green no shady barrier more a plaything to rise up and over their gaze wedded to the pool\u2019s eye where they execute one dip-up motion the pool crying its lyric of white and azure\u2014each bird\u2019s pale breast takes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19513,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions\/19513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe garden hedge
\nits glossy tall green
\nno shady barrier<\/p>\n
\nto rise up and over
\ntheir gaze wedded
\nto the pool\u2019s eye<\/p>\n
\none dip-up motion
\nthe pool crying
\nits lyric of white<\/p>\n
\npale breast takes
\nthe reflected blue
\nof what its thirst<\/p>\n
\neach dip each dive
\neach muscular shove
\nleaves a kissing-ring<\/p>\n
\nas bills scoop clear
\nthe flickering badge
\nof blue is pinned<\/p>\n
\nthen wings adjust
\nup\u2014agilely away\u2014
\neach bird ascending<\/p>\n
\nso it must appear
\nthere\u2019s nothing here
\nactually changing<\/p>\n