Scarecrow
Scarecrow - Pauline Stainer
Scarecrow
There’s a man in the corn
Rest easy my dear
With red on his hands
Poppies my dear
He’s crowned with storm-birds
Quickthorn my dear
I saw his face in the lightning’s fork
Sockets clear my dear
The driven rain was the world’s wide tear
Just so my dear
If I laid my eyes in, would you take him down?
O no my dear
from The Lady and the Hare: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2003), © Pauline Stainer 2003, used by permission of the author and the publisher.