animals of language
Roisin Lambert. Rooks. Myth. Natural History. Land. 
She felt a flock rising beneath her.
rooks.
frantic shapes untethering from scarified land.
oil feathered.
dragging body and form into the shape of sky.
It rose and hurt.
this thrashing and lifting in the gesture of flight.
brittle bone beaked
these rooks of dark eyes and molting spirit.
they gather and circle
calling, clicking, incanting,
Picking sinew and muscle and matter and bone
from which to weave a winter nest 
in the bare branches of her mind.
Roisin Lambert. Rooks. Mythology in Landsape
Silhouette of a bat flying near trees against a cloudy sky at dusk.
Black silhouette of multiple birds flying in the sky with some trees at the bottom of the image.