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As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud Spring tide drags west but he paddles east Water seeps through the stitching a little like blood Arne buckles his weight over the hump of the river, the small craft alive on the back of the wave as he waits for the hook to reveal his possessions: pot of ink, hunk of amethyst, a drawing of a storm framed in gold and made of light   He wraps these in hessian, a swaddle of ornament, pulls up a line as the clouds move south, rain simpers along the Welsh mountains, calling ‘Go home now Find a dent in the earth and burrow in’  He sings to the wind, rows the harrying waters Across the estuary a ship bell starts to ring   An Irish ferry slows its entry into the detritus of objects on the river awaiting the storm, a broken slate, rat’s corpse, torn lace, a mirror, the thought of the future in a golden case, open to spray, velvet inlay sodden with salt A handful of red hair floats like a jelly fish caught in the to and fro, in the froth of the drag A cormorant extends its shining black feathers as he walks ashore on the bone of the wing