© Helen Lowe
Published in Bravado 14, 2008
homes
white timbered in the south
give way to brown-red
in mid and north —
avenues of birch trees
serried lakes
an elk
runs through deep winter
the night train flares
through cuttings —
inferno cast across jagged firs
frozen earth
rushes headlong
into spring — a pied crow
solitary
above a grey field