Moya Costello

2 poems

these poems were also published in Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures

commune-banded

(Urtica incisia family Urthicacene. Stinging Nettle.)

Nut-brown, black-currented, honeyed, buttered, muddied stutter the tribes of flowers. Flourished-hatted some, oblivious, knowingly protected on the host, not to be victimised. Cluster cloistered and tugged, pulled in close; not crumpled but crowded, not unsettled, but if standing out then elegant, celebratory, thinking outwards. Or standing gathered outside an iron-aged-peopled kingdom.

Dark-Christmas-tree green-leaved narrowed top to broadened bottom. Pike-ramparted. Spiked-haired to annoy/make cross, hairs speared, sworded, readied at their launching pad. Hairs everywhere.

A clan-commune community-banded, mustering in full force of battalions. 

fine

(Lachnagrotis filiformis (G.Forst.) Trin. familyPoaceae. Blown Grass / Fairy Grass.)

fine fine fishing line thin pale palea lime-green mellow-yellow straw-feathered feathered-sheathed fishing-line fine minutely membranous spike seeded blade striped shallowly grooved blown (wind) grass hairy (wooly) grass-thread-shaped pattern-embroidered fine fine entanglement panicle spreading divaricated abscission in windblow independently assertively not shy caring-for