Something Else

Under the hedgerow, nothing will fall apart, nor hold, until a first milky dribble is squeezed into the mewing mouths of the newborn. Small forms roll in their dim pelts, nightjars swoop from branch to tree trunk, bat calls return to receiving ears. A child's dream grows a face-masked cloud, small eyes appear behind a mattress of foliage, clairvoyant glimmers of the yet to come. Every dawn is a stranger, a nakedly visual light. Gaps in the shrubbery coalesce, to reveal a small industrial unit, cogs and wheels run deep, as they turn something into something. Further back, the goose-necked end of a small pond curls morning mist into unworldly shapes, will-of-the-whisps, that drift in and out of an opening sky. A yearning awakens, one warm breath starts a dew-cold engine, soon the seen, will be accelerating, emerging once more into something else.