howling wind
dogs ask to go outside
change their minds
© Rachel Green December 2023
a knot of sparrows
wheel and turn against the grey sky.
What happened to the starlings
that made the murmurations of my youth?
Are they still there,
in the semi-rural lands of my childhood,
or have they migrated away;
burned by climate change
and city pollution?
New laws prevent the burning of green wood
but our neighbour still chokes us
with the sulphurous fumes of her coal fires
and cracking down on car emissions
does sweet fuck-all when one Tory minister
can charter a single-person jet.
© Rachel Green December 2023
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