Winter Swans

• The clouds


  give there all- two days of rain then a break.
• Waterlogged


  earth gulping for a breath
• They


  halved themselves in dark water
• swum


  the distance between us.
• Form

  • Free verse
  • 3 lines except last two are couplets showing they are together.
  • Uneven shape & variation in line length- strain in relaship
• A couple are walking along together, in a brief patch of good weather after two days of rain, and come across some swans. It is suggested that the couple have had an argument or disagreement which has separated them, however