BLEAK

Bleak is a pale thin fish
Skimming in drifts
Where weed is sparse
Bleak is food for the heron
And scant his plumes
In chill morning
Bleak is day
And bleak the eye of the bird
In fast bleakness
In such a bleak prospect
The sharp beak
And the bleak fish
It would take much to lift
This mood of mist
And monochrome
It might take sun
Which can mean nothing
In such bleak emptiness