Right along the lough shore
A smoke of flies
Drifts thick in the sunset.
They come smattering daintily
Against the windscreen,
The grill and bonnet whisper
At their million collisions:
It is to drive thought
A hail of fine chaff.
Yet we leave no clear wake
For they open and close on us
As the air opens and closes.
To-night when we put out our light
To kiss between sheets
Their just audible siren will go
Outside the window,
Their invisible veil
Weakening the moonlight still further
And the walls will carry a rash
Of them, a green pollen.
They’ll have infiltrated our clothes by morning.
A smoke of flies
Drifts thick in the sunset.
They come smattering daintily
Against the windscreen,
The grill and bonnet whisper
At their million collisions:
It is to drive thought
A hail of fine chaff.
Yet we leave no clear wake
For they open and close on us
As the air opens and closes.
To-night when we put out our light
To kiss between sheets
Their just audible siren will go
Outside the window,
Their invisible veil
Weakening the moonlight still further
And the walls will carry a rash
Of them, a green pollen.
They’ll have infiltrated our clothes by morning.
You're missing the rest of it:
ReplyDeleteIf you put one under a lens
You'd be looking at a pumping body
With such outsize beaters for wings
That this visitation would seem
More drastic than Pharaoh's -
I'm told they're mosquitoes
But I'd need forests and swamps
To believe it
For these are our innocent, shuttling
Choirs, dying through
Their own live empyrean, troublesome only
As the last veil on a dancer.