To Snowdrop

1. The sea wolf comes with each tide Circling the waves of the weary darkness Its dark cloud will sound its wind through the ray And give its way to inner light What it else brings, who will know Only few hours and minutes more till beginning burn When the stars will fall off to shine To the mistress - the 'pale head heavy as metal' (sic) 2. Flowers of dark surround the head With inside wintering bouquets’ from earth Weasel and crow are searching still Giving a thought to the inside grown wild, Like a flash from light, each understands Through the mind of darkness of normalness Death is not within these infinities Nor madness that pursues Snowdrop (Inspiration: Ted Hughes’ Snowdrop Now is the globe shrunk tight Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass Move through an outer darkness Not in their right minds, With other deaths. She, too pursues her ends Brutal as the stars of this month Her pale head heavy as metal) .