What is the Truth? Quotes

“There’s a heat-wave in swallows —
Dry static of the baked air crackling
Off their wing-tips, and no let-up, round and
Round and round the sun-struck dizzy buildings.

There’s thunder too in swallows.
Glitter-dark, flickering over the white hay
Where the flies hide from the lightning
When the air tightens, and the whole sky sags low like a big, warm drop.

What is loveliest about swallows
Is the moment they come,
The moment they dip in, and are suddenly there.”
― Ted Hughes, What is the Truth?