Student woodpecker

River Alres, near Alresford

Student woodpecker
carpenter of the sky
you codify

beak

bark

brain

in the distance like the clacker
of some semantic loom
caught up in whose matrix of meaning

a river gift
waits wriggling
as if tickled by
a thought

16 June 1966

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