The hearth had yet to warm a toe, an hour before the paling
The rain had gone
now comes the cold
profound, inactive ,cold
Assumed a duelling clarion across the mustered aerials,,
slung, humboldt in the jangled dark, inanimate
In the hush of these ice-bound mornings, sound travels, The local lesser-black backs have a regular tear-up with a couple of herons that kip down by the frozen willow, On low-pressure mornings, it's all a bit windy and lost In the cold-high-overs it hovers forever, cupping the lowland with voice