MURMURATION. Cogden Nature Reserve. Burton Mere. Chesil Beach. Dorset. 2020- 2021.
Starling murmuration
Northern Lights wrapped in feather
Sublime – both
![Frances Hatch Northern Lights and Lights of Storekorsnes](https://franceshatch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Northern-Lights-and-Lights-of-Storekorsnes-768x992.jpg)
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![FRANCES HATCH NORTHERN NOVEMBER WAVE](https://franceshatch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_6633-768x445.jpg)
MURMURATION MOON
it
begins
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n
e
specked
egg of air
grows wings
and multiplies
a sparse gathering becomes Glastonbury
headlining the air
balletic
bird
brained
northern
light festooned
with feather
dusk chill turns
beaks
mud
ward
feathers
funnel
following
the sun
under water
somewhere
chatterlings of reed stalks
nattering
into
q
u
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e
t
I turn
walk back
my face shining
like Moses’
from the mountain
at the very end of 2020
![FRANCES HATCH HEADLINING THE AIR: MURMURATION](https://franceshatch.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_6192-768x530.jpg)
continuing….emerging series