HOGCHESTER
Open Meadows June and July 2020
We drifted down
Through the flower-folded meadow
Amongst a flotilla of brown-sailed butterflies
And a cavalry of tiny grasshoppers, clattering
Against the brittle seed-cases of yellow rattle.
Golden sunlight crowned the oaks in the hedgerows
And kissed the tops of feather-crested grasses.
Martin Maudsley (Hogchester meadows 2020)
We drifted down
Through the flower-folded meadow
Amongst a flotilla of brown-sailed butterflies
And a cavalry of tiny grasshoppers, clattering
Against the brittle seed-cases of yellow rattle.
Golden sunlight crowned the oaks in the hedgerows
And kissed the tops of feather-crested grasses.
Martin Maudsley (Hogchester meadows 2020)