Lesley Burt

Christchurch, Dorset, UK

 

 

Lesley's poetry has been published widely over many years, for example in: The Interpreter’s House, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Reach, Sarasvati, Tears in the Fence and The Butchers Dog; also online, including in Poetry Kit, The Poetry Shed, Algebra of Owls and Ink, Sweat and Tears.

 

Poem written 16th April 2020,

 

Early morning walk in a plague year

 

The river stands, smooth for a while

before it ripples into its ebb tide.

 

Above it terns squeal, dive, squabble,

chase to steal one another’s fish.

 

Still water reflects moorings:

dinghies, fishing boats, empty buoys –

 

three cormorants fly in formation

pointing towards home. I follow.