From, A Country Diary

Litchfield Down

here the downs

here the flint

and flint

downs are earth

and are a rolling sea of earth

a rolling sea of a rolling sea of a rolling sea

the arc of a furrow

the arc

the hill

of the hill

of a furrow

and disappears

the crest of

and disappears over

over the crest

riddled and sorted

riddled and spat

and sorted

and spat

and sorted

and spat

and sorted

and spat

and spat

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