From, A Country Diary

South Uist (third)

were buried

were once burned

a fire once burned

buried and the place

a fire and fragments mark the place

fragments of wood

mark of charred charred wood

Highland Water

they're dying

they’re living

of the living-dying flowers

limb of the flowers

on a fallen larger limb

on a fallen branchlet

on the larger branchlet

on the branchlet

on the branchlet

Nene Valley

cold evening

a cold fog and fog

evening

a clear night comes

dawn and clear night

and then comes dawn

and a frost

a frost

then a frost

From, A Country Diary

Crook

of sunlight

of light

of light

sunlight that speared a halo

of that speared through

in a halo

through the surrounded

in the hawthorns was surrounded

hawthorns and the hedge was

and highlighted

of the hedge highlighted

the top of the fresh on top fresh green

its perch on green growth

from its perch

growth of goosegrass singing from

of goosegrass

a sparrow singing

 a hedge

hedge sparrow hedge

the sun rose

the grasses, withered grasses

sun rose

the frost

last autumn’s withered

the frost turned to

– among last autumn’s

turned to sparkling

hedge among sparkling water

the hedge water drops

underneath the drops

on catkins underneath

on new hazel catkins

new hawthorn and hazel

hawthorn leaves

leaves and leaves

From, A Country Diary

Bodinnick to Polruan

then dark

then a rainbow

from inland a rainbow

dark clouds encroach from inland

clouds and blasts

rain encroach

and blasts of cold

of cold rain

of cold

by cliffs

by scrub

blackthorn scrub

cliffs and in the blackthorn

and steep pastures

sing in the steep pastures

violets, and robins sing

violets speckle coastal path

and robins speckle turf

by the coastal path

turf by the turf

by the turf