Ornithology

The Wood Thrush sings a duet

All by itself, using two separate

Voices, while the whip-bird’s one cry – two creatures,

Nothing between them, though you know the fiction,

Standing on Point Sublime, to listen:

“One. Are we one. We are. One”

unpublished poem, © Gwyneth Lewis 2014, used by permission of the author

Gwyneth Lewis is one of the most prominent Welsh poets of her generation, and the first writer to take up the Welsh Laureateship. She ...
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