INVOLUNTARY SURRENDER. the blast flits sideways loops a heath compass and returns to interfere making her ill tempered she is a modest reed sore with river bending and watching far hills advance and retreat she
INVOLUNTARY SURRENDER.
the blast flits sideways
loops a heath compass
and returns to interfere
making her ill tempered
she is a modest reed
sore with river bending
and watching far hills
advance and retreat
she has no resistance
to the rain’s trespass
or the sleet’s contempt
her fine yellow waist
has a spreading blemish
and then a stress fracture
because she is unique
single strands of grass
rustle their loneliness
and genuflect farewell
she folds and splits
falls in a crosswind
the season is going
the season is gone
Robin Lindsay Wilson
Robin is a lecturer in Acting and Performance at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Three collections of his poetry have been published by Cinnamon Press – ‘Ready Made Bouquets’ (2007), ‘Myself and Other Strangers (2015) and ‘Backstage in Paradise’ (2019). His poetry has appeared in many UK poetry magazines.