From, A Country Diary

Ribblesdale

of corals

of strata

or formed strata

or corals

other sea formed strata

or other sea creatures living

formed strata

or creatures

living and dying

formed strata or –  

and dying in formed strata

–  or in such formed strata

or such quantities

formed strata

or quantities that piled formed strata

or that piled skeletal formed strata

or skeletal remains

formed strata

or remains formed

formed strata

or formed strata

or formed strata

or strata

or – 

From, A Country Diary

St Dominic

a chiffchaff sings

a chiffchaff

wild and wild sings

above the dog’s mercury

and above the sunken lane of dog’s mercury

sunken lane

where bluebells –  

the green of

–  where bluebells –   

stitchwort between the green

stitchwort and alkanet

–  bloom between  

and alkanet bloom

and alkanet bloom

and alkanet

From, A Country Diary

Ebernoe Common

the trees are the trees

green the green

are still

and the still bare celandines

and bare but lesser celandines

but spring yellow

lesser spring flowers

anemones

yellow flowers are wood anemones

are emerging starlike

wood emerging through

the white starlike

through the leaf litter floor

white leaf litter of the woodland floor

of the woodland

of the woodland

From, A Country Diary

Wayland Wood

this is still this winter

in winter is still a wood

locked in a wood locked

a wood locked

a wood

twig ends

and twig ends

rise, the trees rise

and as the trees rise

as the trees

the trees rise

the trees rise

the trees rise

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