Winter Field Poem by William Barton

Winter Field



A killing field of grass-blades
Is whetted to bitter sharpness
by frost and icy wind.

A regiment of hawthorn
Stands guard, its cruel spikes
barbed with winter steel.

Companies of silver birch besiege
a frozen pool whose shield of ice
reflects a cracked and broken sky.

Winter's armoury -
till unbuckled
by Spring.

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