New poetry from John Kinsella.
Corvids
Up the church’s steps
The hooded birds boldly hop
Towards salvation.
Starlings
In the eaves –
cats brawling below –
beaks knotted with grubs;
the clouds vanished
as pesticides softened
eggshells – crushed
by the lightest
of bodies.
John Kinsella’s new book of selected poems, Drowning in Wheat, is published by Picador. His latest col-lection, Firebreaks, recording life and ecology in Western Australia, has just been published by W W Norton.