The godwits
I was commissioned to write some poems to be set by composer Anthony Ritchie. The gorgeous music has arrived! The sequence concerns the godwits and their flight across the planet. Here's the first one
1
I was born on the northern tundra,
in a cup of moss beside a pool.
I fledged here, in the delta of the two great rivers,
Yukon and Kuskokwim,
on a marsh as large as a country
red with sedge and yellow with grass
where the water mirrors the huge blue sky.
Thank you, dear and best reader
Love the scale shifts, and the way they unfold vastness from something tiny.