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Migr a nts They shot them in the fields – ‘Skylarks that sung to Nazis are not welcome here’. Territories of the heart contract as music’s mapped; song-flight’s fleshbound and distressed – a small brown bird in alien corn. 6

Bittern it thrives in brackish water where the sea has broken in – in marshes and on river banks – edges of solid ground. When danger comes it imitates the reeds, sticking its head up straight and swaying in the wind. A nervous bird, more often heard than seen, its hollow boom was heard at night in ancient and in empty times – in Nineveh and Babylon. 7

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Migr a nts

They shot them in the fields – ‘Skylarks that sung to Nazis are not welcome here’. Territories of the heart contract as music’s mapped; song-flight’s fleshbound and distressed – a small brown bird in alien corn.

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