Matutinal
Michael Lee Rattigan
Crow on the wind says
guard your words today
Birds wheel out and gather
rain doesn't miss a leaf
A warning call seeds the air
branches empty, dendritic
The world gasps out
gold through the grey
Wind curls a wing
a leaf just dropped
against a siren's repeated sound.
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Michael Lee Rattigan's work has been published on the internet, in magazines (most recently in OtherPoetry, Phati'tude, and The Black Herald Magazine) as well as in book form: a chapbook of poems, Nature Notes and a bi-lingual translation of Fernando Pessoa's Caeiro poems. Both published by rufus books.