from, A Country Diary

New Forest

hollies are hollies

bushes hazel bushes

are heavily berried

many hazel

heavily berried

hawthorn lie under

many hawthorn

hedges of cobnuts

lie under hedges

have a strippings of cobnuts

have a magenta

the strippings magenta

sheen foliage

the sheen where the colouring foliage

where the ripened in colouring

ripened fruits hidden

in fruits are

increasingly are

increasingly hidden

are increasingly

from, A Country Diary

Wenlock Edge (second)

the hawthorn berries

the hawthorn moon

under the harvest moon berries

shines nights

under the harvest shines with

and nights with bright autumn rains

and bright autumn days

morning rains

days morning days

morning days

now the haws

now brown gold

brown the haws are

at red

gold are

at their gold red

their most yellow

gold most dazzling

gold yellow dazzling

though green gold

though not gold green

not yet gold

gold yet edible

and is gold edible

and the season

the season is the season

from, A Country Diary

Sandy, Bedfordshire 2

brambles and fallen brambles

and hedge no hedge

fallen branches

no hedge

branches giving no hedge

giving the false impression

no hedge

the false impression of no hedge

of a hedge no hedge

a hedge but no hedge

but lately no hedge

lately the debris

no hedge

the debris had no hedge

had been no hedge

been cleared

no hedge cleared

leaving no hedge

leaving a pronounced no hedge

a pronounced bank

no hedge

bank but no hedge

but no, no hedge

no hedge

no hedge

hedge

from, A Country Diary

Sandy, Bedfordshire

       

for years the trees

    for years a hedge

of a hedge the trees had been the false impression of

    had been linked by giving the false impression

linked by a chest-high mass

    branches giving a chest-high mass

of fallen branches

    of nettles and fallen nettles

brambles, brambles and brambles