ecstatics a language of birds
Laura Drever Lesley Harrison
ecstatics
a language of birds
Brae Editions
Orkney 2011
auk far out, they hang together like notes on the wind a brown line above the swell
blackbird ecstatics. they sing a full song. they are a garden of song.
chaffinch sea pink, dry as lichen. a clot, slipping branch to branch.
Some pages have been omitted in this version – total length is 36 pages, with 15 drawings (including cover) and 21 poems.
gannet four o’clock. floating paper thin above the drop