Poem - "Prospect" by Sylvia Plath

"Prospect" 
by Sylvia Plath


Among orange-tile rooftops


and chimney pots

the fen fog slips,

gray as rats,



while on spotted branch

of the sycamore

two black rooks hunch

and darkly glare,



watching for night,

with absinthe eye

cocked on the lone, late,