from, A Country Diary

Wenlock Edge (sixth)

broken branches

broken open

cracked open

branches with hollows

cracked

with black buds

bat hollows

black buds packed

owl and bat packed

with architecture

owl and with next year’s

the wooden architecture

next year’s leaves

through the wooden leaves

fungal life through fungal filaments that thread life

filaments that thread

filaments that thread filaments

from, A Country Diary

Hardham

a dunnock is a dunnock

singing is singing

the South

the sky

the sky

South Downs

across the Downs clouds are racing

across clouds are racing

clouds are racing

clouds are

                      across the valley

across the clouds are Downs

clouds are

valley to the South

to the South Downs

to the South

from, A Country Diary

Wenlock Edge (fifth)

of ivy

of a sea

waves in a sea

ivy, and like waves in

and the roaring like the wind

wind roaring wind

the dark

the world

the world dark green

from the green space is hidden

from space is hidden

space is hidden space

the dark

the space

is hidden space

dark, the space is hidden

the world is hidden space

world, the space is hidden

the world from space

world, dark is hidden

from dark green space

is hidden

green from the green

space from the green

from the green 

from, A Country Diary

Wenlock Edge (fourth)

it comes, it flowers

ivy flowers

comes from feeding on ivy

from the wasps feeding on the wings

and wasps

wings of hoverflies

of hoverflies

and of hoverflies

do as do butterflies

tortoiseshell butterflies

as the small tortoiseshell

the light is ragged

small light is held

in greenbottles ragged

held in their wings

the itinerant hoverflies

greenbottles, their wings

like flakes that the itinerant hoverflies like

flakes of mica know that

of mica or shreds

not know

or shreds of cellophane

or may not

of cellophane

they may

they may

or may

they may

now broken

now the end

before the end

broken that idea

flowers before that idea may --
    ivy flowers may 
travel in the ivy

travel in the dreaming

in the, in the insect of dreaming

insect wings

a moment of wings 
   in, and a moment in, their buzzing lives

and their buzzing restless, restless lives