#2020 - the bracken way

 

2020

6.194

13.vii.25

the bracken way

by Loch Gynack

Kingussie to Newtonmore

 

past the ruined mill, through dell

burn beside

 

old walls now mossed

hands’ witness

 

up Creag Bheag

the raspberry way

 

summer leaf, pigeon high

tall pine too

 

heather chicken

flee on foot

 

come into the open then

exposed

 

there’s all the moor

distant vistas

 

I prefer the woods

sunlight uphill mottling

 

shade and breeze my friends

long dusk

 

undercrunch gravel

and then

 

book open so I

fall in with the lines as they fall

 

stop to hear the bees