We shall have no clouds today
We shall have no clouds today - Jane Draycott
We shall have no clouds today
We shall have no clouds today, only
the wasps’ slow eclipse of the windfalls
and archangel heron, fanning what fires?
Bone by bone, I lay myself out
in the grass, wonder what will you do
to put the heart across me now?
from Christina the Astonishing (Two Rivers Press,1998), © Jane Draycott 1998, used by permission of the author