It took a lot of patience! Goldcrest

Goldcrest 

From the gnarly spruce, each bough 

thick with needles of pastel green,

heavy with woody cones 

A tiny tinny sound

In this Sussex churchyard.

Careful 

we tip-toe

so not to disturb them above our heads

Or those sleeping

below.

Necks craned we glimpse 

hops and flits of tiny shadows.

A second to press,

and catch the image. 

To spot the yellow stripe on a small brown head

As the goldcrest serenades the dead.


october 2020