WALKING TWO WAYS

Walking Two Ways

Poems celebrating the Stroud valleys. Limited edition released for exhibition joint with Carolyn White (paintings of the Stroud valleys). 2006. 

This book is out of print.

Close to the Unknown

such stillness in the grey eye of the sky
an imminence, something about to be?

a scattering of empty nut shells in their green leaf cases
(these are the runes)

tree stippled hills receding into blur
a brown butterfly knits the wide meadow in rapid mazy stitches…
is here
otherwhere
and gone

far westwards towards the Forest
broad Severn’s a sliver of pewter
and unseen buzzards cry

you are pushing through thick air
into the unknown
high warm wold under your feet