AIR* 

Feelerbright  fingers•  fleecefilm  furfluff• 
fleeting  the  flight• height•  herding  the  furls! 

 softfeather  throsmswoon  hushfrith  is. 

athom  or• stirs• •  low• whirl  waul• whines 
or• why  whyis? 

 hushfrith  is. 

oreth  hauls  puffs• pants• pines• pules: 
whist  over  wish  over  whimper. 

allover  all• liss•   worn  and  bewanned• 
with  afterfollow•   afterfling•   winding• bewinding• 
whirls  into  halehuff•  hies  into  hollowdraw: 
roams  into  rawring  rushwhistle  reaveswhirl• 
fangs  the  lielow• lull  flow . . 

feelerbright  fingers•   fleecefilm  furfluff• 
fleeing  to  flight•height•  hearding  the  furls! 

 oreth  frith  is :  orith  frith  is : 
 oruth  frith  is. 
  
  

                              (1934)

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* Cox intended his ‘nature poems’ to be read aloud, and developed a
typography to guide the reader. A key to these typographical cues is given in
the Preliminary Note to the Gogmagog book, 9 POEMS FROM NATURE (1959),
which is a sequence of nature poems from 1937:

. [full stop] = a pause of one full breath.
. . [two full stops] = a pause of two full breaths, etc.
: [colon] = a half-breath pause.
• [elevated, smaller dot] = a slight pause without taking breath.

- BH/03