Twiglet toes, 
Scratch-glass sharp,
Scratching grip 
To twiggy bones
Of pines un-pined, 
Pining each calling
Out with smoky breath frosting 
Morning fog and 
Frost branded branches.
Reach, Bird, reach, 
With your fan-ful wings
Thrown to sky 
To bow, bow, bow,
On mat flecked with 
Embroidered lichen
On scrapes of
Silver birch
scrolls.

Ezra Pound was awarded the first Bollingen prize by Yale University, today in 1949.

Harper Lee, American novelist, died today in 2016.