The colour of sky and sunlight
he acrobats
among the tree tops,
with his head on one side
he considers
the abracadabra
of the high twigs
where he splits open a seed
or spin-twizzles
a caterpillar
like a strand of spaghetti
and as he goblins
out of sight, you wonder
how the cobalt of his wings
grew from the yolk of an egg.
© Rebecca Gethin
Picture 10492970, illustration by Noel Hopking, image copyright Mary Evans / Medici
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor in Devon. She has had two pamphlets published in 2017 – All the Time in the World by Cinnamon Press (who also previously published her full collection and two novels) and A Sprig of Rowan by Three Drops Press. She has been a Hawthornden Scholar and has had a Pushcart nomination. She edited A Poetry of Elephants, an anthology of poems to raise money for DSWT, an elephant orphanage in Kenya which was shortlisted for a Saboteur Award. She currently runs the Poetry School Seminar in Plymouth every month. Her website is www.rebeccagethin.wordpress.com