North Col - Shearwater

Each stray reminder of your home life

Is hung on the wind that pulls away from you

As the walls of the mountains in the cold light

Glow red in an echo of the flares on high

In the vault of the night

In the frost, in the branches, in the clotheslines

A fierce little wren is singing loud and high

And his eyes insisting on their own life

Gave legs to the lie

That there is world, and time

To grow old in its light

In the last of the embers of the twilight

The gunmetal air has come alive with birds

They burst from the clouds above the snow line

And bloom in the ashes of the old black sky

And go back to the night