1.

brand new light crinkles

like cellophane on the fields

wakening the birds

2.

scarves of mist muffle

the neck of Whitecastle Hill

a curlew beckons

3.

latches click, doors close

figures move upon the land

singly, intently

4.

the sky is the bright

iris of a peacock's eye

wide and unblinking

5.

starlings swoop and swirl

in a curling wisp of smoke

slowly dispersing

6.

the sunlight settles

in an armchair and watches

its shadows playing

7.

the sky expands and

deepens as the earth contracts

hunching its shoulders

8.

the setting sun slides

its knife between cloud and earth

releasing a skylark

9.

the peacock swells and

spreads a tail of stars across

the darkening sky

10.

midnight comes and sweeps

the valley clean with its broom

moonlight bathes the earth