from, A Country Diary

Oxfordshire

bonfires these bonfires

the time is the time

these burn

it is burn all day

after it all day

and the hour

after and every day

and the hour

every day

but sunset

but sunset

and but sunset

smoke drifts

smoke disappears

countryside disappears

drifts horizontally

the whole countryside

horizontally over

and the whole

over the fields

the hedges and the fields

and through the hedges

and threads its way through

threads its way

threads its way

trees and trees

smoke and smoke

and mists

mist and mists

and of mist and the planes

of the solid

the flat planes

solid ground itself

because the flat ground itself

seem to –

is it because –

seem to breathe

and skyward

is it breathe

and to gaze

to gaze skyward

to gaze