foxes stream from the earth;
a tawny owl sweeps the long meadow
When the day-birds have settled
in their creaking trees,
the doors of the forest open
for the flitting
drift of deer
among the bright croziers
of new ferns
and the legible stars…
—Robin Robertson, “What the Horses See at Night”
published in SAILING THE FOREST: Selected Poems (Picador, 2014)
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/robin-robertson/sailing-the-forest/9781447231554
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