Thursday, 10 July 2025

#2019 - the dragging of the heels

 



2019

6.193

12.vii.25

the dragging of the heels

a sheep flow by the River Spey

 

midge stillness too

day grassed over

 

a headful of hay in these horses

 

vanished stream but hear it

 

flowers of the wild

now summer shining

 

tufts of sheep here there

barbed fence rubbings

 

bees attend flower

 

voices fade from

 

the path brings a river back

this one is the Calder

 

warm shallows and quartz inscribed

 

each stone a world shaped

island at least

 

speckle stones and glitter too

come dry to rest past the rain

 

some like eggs

from which burst forth  

 

the lambing ewes as signed

where a sky’s as grey


 





















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