POETRYTHURSDAY±11

Hüm (noun)
by Jen Hadfield

(For Bo)

Twilight, gloaming;
to walk blind
against the wind;

to be abject; lick snot
and rain from the top lip
like a sick calf.

To be blinded by rain
from the north.

To be blinded
by westerly rain.

To walk uphill
into a tarry peatcut
and bluster a deal
with the Trowes.

To cross the bull's field
in the dark.

To pass in the dark
a gate of hollow bars
inside which the wind is broaling.

To pass in the dark
a byre like a rotten walnut.

To not know the gate
till you run up against it.

This will be the last poetry Thursday for now. I never really liked it as much as I thought I would, but I will continue to post poetry because you know...some of it is actually pretty good!