Peopled: Walking in isolation, Staffordshire, 2020.          Long-listed for Nature in the Air poetry call-out, and featured in: The  Gallery of Discovery, Weston Park, Staffordshire

To Orslow first, where Horsa’s people work the land,

who, at our approach, stop with hoe and axe in hand

to watch from wooden walls, drawing with secret voice

and movement  their mud-bellied pigs and children close…

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St Giles' Churchyard, Shrewsbury

wanting from each straight incision her children’s limbs

and from each curve their soft heads and laughter.

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And I know this is a potent spell, cast in looping words that even un-mouthed

can drag a young girl into young girls’ hell

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On All Hallows’ Eve the hedgerows sing

With lizard-tongues and speckled suits

we’ll charm all triple-teated twigs,

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OAK

OAK

Autumn ruster of pool and sky 
Conductor of bird song 
and electricity
Photosynthesiser

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