The Girton Poetry Group

Not Averse

yew needs dried blood in spring

   —

blood ancestry

phantoms

graveyard cadavers

spicing the soil

   —

iron rusted

pump valves

good for scattering

from plastic tubs

feeding yew

crooked elbow

   —

no gravestones

poor yew transplanted

wide-lipped pots

ornamental

shape clipped

wind curves

   —

moles tubers

worm roots wait

for spring

when dried blood scatters