Paper
What form would you take?
part of a glossary in a book
about birds, page three
of an introduction
to Heart of Darkness,
an origami crane;
or maybe red crepe
wrapped round a spine
that's about to go bang?
*****
Clearing
Alone in the woods,
I buried the bird beneath
leaf and twig.
First light, I carried its song
into the glade. A stone's throw away
from uncommon ground.
*****
River or Tree?
How can one answer?
If you say river
you'd have to admit
your end is the sea.
If you say tree
you'd have to stay put,
unless you were felled
by lightning, or worse.
Maggie Sawkins lives in Portsmouth and delivers creative writing projects in community settings. Her live literature production "Zones of Avoidance" won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Her most recent poetry collection, Many Skies Have Fallen, is published by Wild Mouse Press. You can find her here: www.hookedonwords.me.