Fern tongues unfurl
licking vernal air
verges roll and unfold, labouring
lencten blooms
verdant abundance
merging and stitching
embroidered banks
or primrose, elder and vetch
flint teeth
conceal conchoidal cracks
sunk into clay paths
of cleft earth
haunted by summers gone by
sprawling static caravans
neither here nor there
waiting, haunting
stone fragments
memorials, memories
posies laid for our ancestors
for ourselves
