From, A Country Diary

Hill End

of fescues

of the dog violet

the fescues

eyebright

late blooming dog violet

eyebright

selfheal

a late blooming selfheal

tormentil and even a tormentil

and even tormentil

and even tormentil

rain will wash away rain

will be over

will be over

wash away their spoil

in the sun will

their spoil heaps

few weeks

in the sun heaps

and their few weeks

and all trace will disappear  

their all trace

of them

of them

will disappear

of them

From, A Country Diary

Airedale

over my head

over my exhausted

– look –

exhausted head

a jay always

– look, a jay takes flight

in flight  

always takes flight

from the sycamore

but jays in flight

from the sycamore

as the bird exhausted

but jays

– as the bird crosses  

and exhausted crosses

the winged and the river

heavy winged

river to the

– it looks heavy  

to the meadow beyond

it looks meadow and hawthorns

and hawthorns beyond and hawthorns

From, Country Diary

Backstone Bank

woodland gone

woodland and wood sorrel

and gone were the primroses, wood sorrel

were the songs, sanicle, primroses

songs of woodruff, sanicle

of wood, of woodruff

wood warblers

flowers of warblers

and of spring flowers and blackcaps

the carpet of spring

blackcaps gone too

gone too the carpet

gone too

From, A Country Diary

Drakewalls

now bright

now trees are birch trees

are bright with the lady’s mantle

birch with the summery purples and lady’s mantle

summery purples of fleabane and of selfheal

vetch, fleabane, selfheal, thistle

with yellow vetch, thistle, buddleia

interspersed with yellow

buddleia, rosebay and knapweed interspersed

rosebay and knapweed

rosebay and knapweed

rosebay

MORESTEAD

HERE COMMONS MET

 THE FARM ACRES 

 OF THE SOUTH 

EACH WORLD

THE MANY

BOUGHT

FIRS

OF

ROAD

SERVED

OLD LAND

DOWN LEIGH

OF THE GRASS

 AND THEIR RENT 

 NEAR PARISH LANE