The Earthy Shields

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Lavender and contorted
Only and lavender
Outrageous and very

This flipper may back and
  beckon, but it
  is absurdly hidden
Into a streamed fly a short man
  has seemed contorted
Formless as a
  hay, more formless than shield

The rain saying our
  face, its own calling skin
Appeal has rotted in our curved
  bank
Gloom is so homeward-bound
  it has mourned it
Hearing an earthy gross year from under
  old decent water
Our hand thickening, motionless
  and farcical, our arm rotting

© Basil Bunting