Sunday, February 6, 2022

Evening Poem by Alice Oswald

Evening Poem

 
Old scrap-iron foxgloves
rusty rods of the broken woods
 
what a faded knocked-out stiffness
as if you’d sprung from the horsehair
    of a whole Victorian sofa buried in the mud down there
 
or at any rate something dropped from a great height
straight through flesh and out the other side
has left your casing pale and loose and finally
 
just a heap of shoes
 
they say the gods being so uplifted
can’t really walk on feet but take tottering steps
and lean like this closer and closer to the ground
 
                        which gods?
 
it is the hours on bird-thin legs
the same old choirs of hours
returning their summer clothes to the earth
 
with the night now
as if dropped from a great height
 
falling



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