Sunday 9 May 2021

The Butter-Bur

 

blow away and blow away

   and gone and withered

and gone

   it will be

withered above ground

   it will be

a month above ground

   a month

 

a month above ground, a month

   it will be

above ground

   withered

it will be

   and gone

withered and gone

 

rising and decaying

   rising in February and March

and decaying before

   in February and March

their leaves, before their leaves

 

 

 

 

Saturday 8 May 2021

Cinquefoil

 

later some later summer

   some sooner

some in summer

   some sooner

flowers in summer

   it flowers in summer

it flowers in this land

   it flowers through all this land

almost through all this

   borders and corners of the borders

and corners in the borders

   and in the borders

fields, and in the fields

   and in the way in fields

and the path way in fields

   the path way hedge sides

the path sides

   hedge sides

the wood sides

   hedge sides by wood sides

the hedge grows by wood sides