Saturday 23 January 2016

From, A Country Diary



Sydenham Damerel


against the blue sky
against the stone
the road stone
blue sky
and from the road
and sunlight in smoke
from sunlight catches
catches
in smoke
catches

lanes and lanes
farmsteads and isolated farmsteads
and bounded tracks
pheasants, and isolated bounded tracks thread
shelter pheasants
thread past that shelter
past stubble, kale
that stubble
turnip and kale
turnip crops
maize and crops
for sheep
belts of maize
for sheep hilltop with belts of hilltop copses
pastures with copses
strips undulating
pastures
strips of woodland undulating
of steep, steep woodland

leaves of primroses
leaves of polypody ferns
and polypody ferns
primroses, celandines
of pennywort and celandines
honeysuckle greenery
of pennywort
honeysuckle and winter greenery
and even the winter
even bluebells enhance the bluebells
enhance bluebells
enhance bluebells

of shadows
of asphalt
wet asphalt
shadows and out in tractor ruts
and wet and out in the water filled tractor ruts
 and the open
on puddles
water filled, open
the sun, its brilliance on puddles
the sun reflects
reflects its brilliance
reflects


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