The July Grass (paragraph 4)

without

stays without

it stays

among it was among

that the wind home may take the wind in the sway

in and sway motion

and the motion

the pollen of the dusting

of the dusting panicle

the panicle of the colour of

and colour

shape and the shape

curve of curve

degree of and degree

droop and the droop

stems the stems

of the slenderness of

and slenderness

height and the height

gather them

you gather as you consider

as must consider you must

glass you green glass

old green in old deep

in imitated deep reeds

imitated the reeds

like the aslant like stems

aslant larger stems

the larger cut

the harvest cut

this harvest of this sheaf 

in a stream

in the stream

by the trees

by hollow trees

the hollow inside the inside

look too ruts

look deep ruts

deep in the lanes

in the lanes look for

may look you may

roadside you mere roadside

by them grow

of the marsh

some brackish marsh

the brackish

in the sea

in the sea

or by grasses

or find grasses

to find where to is where

that is quarries

old quarries

cornfields

old cornfields

angles of woods

angles of woods enclosure

of the enclosure inside

just inside

ponds just of ponds

weeds gone there and gone

been and has been

foundations where

abandoned foundations

from abandoned cast up mounds

cast the mounds

the buildings on incomplete buildings

behind incomplete places

look too the gateway

look near the lane

near the lane of the banks

of the banks on the wayside

on the wayside by there

by them there

taken them has taken

scythe has acres

the scythe broad acres

broad and not places

and out of the way places

and out of the way corners

and in corners

looked for looked

must be grasses

July grasses

From, A Country Diary

Hill End

of fescues

of the dog violet

the fescues

eyebright

late blooming dog violet

eyebright

selfheal

a late blooming selfheal

tormentil and even a tormentil

and even tormentil

and even tormentil

rain will wash away rain

will be over

will be over

wash away their spoil

in the sun will

their spoil heaps

few weeks

in the sun heaps

and their few weeks

and all trace will disappear  

their all trace

of them

of them

will disappear

of them

From, A Country Diary

Airedale

over my head

over my exhausted

– look –

exhausted head

a jay always

– look, a jay takes flight

in flight  

always takes flight

from the sycamore

but jays in flight

from the sycamore

as the bird exhausted

but jays

– as the bird crosses  

and exhausted crosses

the winged and the river

heavy winged

river to the

– it looks heavy  

to the meadow beyond

it looks meadow and hawthorns

and hawthorns beyond and hawthorns