Joe Fletcher














Fenrir








Fenrir







Bruised grass at vespertime.

The beasts folded among the orchards.

Flakes of scarlet cloud burn like watchfires.

Green ray strikes a knot of women

gathered high on a knoll.

Corncrake crying unseen from hayfields.

 

Late eclogue.

The drowsy bellman blesses the doors.

Europa dreams into a stasis

at dusty day’s end,

fingers limp on the scepter.

Crocosmia bending heavy with flower.

 

Cool rivershadow.

Shepherds supper on chestnut cake.

Night creeps up the mountain.

Heart leans toward the Hesperides.

The dead boy makes his way down

the lime alleys of the Hofgarten.