The Linnet's Wings Spring 2015 | Page 15

Hush a by Baby, your Cradle is Green The sun emits rays through space to hit Opaque life shapes and boing! bounce, Its golden rush to earth, to chase, to split -And bodies find shadow pronounced In black or grainy grey or even blue That chases all; reshaping folk and Static builds -- to split earth forms in two. Earths' estate now inclusive of our fixtures And fittings: Our man made necessary constructs Built from her full free-to-all emporium, And the best is water: Our collectives' gold That rocked us softly at our beginnings: 'Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, And down will come baby,