AT EXCEAT THERE WAS A WARDEN CLOUD
For LH
At Exceat there was a warden cloud
just out to sea that made me think
of you your grace holding this place
for all of us though we shift our gaze
constantly between the sky, the cliff,
the waves there you are
not shifty at all, enjoying perhaps
the pleasures of a swim in the sea
then watering the allotment. That quiet.
Here’s an old summer poem to briefly
shoo away the present winter chills,
you wrote, though I can hear your
voice, finding on a mountain ledge
(in June) some Common Butterwort
(an amazing flower) its leaves flat
to the ground and shaped like a star
in these days of rain, these marvellous
sunny days.
References:
Postcard: Gorgeous – Yet another Brighton Poem 8/02/2012
Postcard: Harvard Museum of Natural History 17/12/2010
Postcard: Janice Koch, August 1968 20/02/2015
Postcard: Ophrys apifera (bee orchids) 6/03/2009
Postcard: Battenville Garden 1996 13/07/2008
Postcard: Opening Day new poems by William Corbett 28/07/2008
Letter 14/06/2009
Janet Sutherland
For LH
At Exceat there was a warden cloud
just out to sea that made me think
of you your grace holding this place
for all of us though we shift our gaze
constantly between the sky, the cliff,
the waves there you are
not shifty at all, enjoying perhaps
the pleasures of a swim in the sea
then watering the allotment. That quiet.
Here’s an old summer poem to briefly
shoo away the present winter chills,
you wrote, though I can hear your
voice, finding on a mountain ledge
(in June) some Common Butterwort
(an amazing flower) its leaves flat
to the ground and shaped like a star
in these days of rain, these marvellous
sunny days.
References:
Postcard: Gorgeous – Yet another Brighton Poem 8/02/2012
Postcard: Harvard Museum of Natural History 17/12/2010
Postcard: Janice Koch, August 1968 20/02/2015
Postcard: Ophrys apifera (bee orchids) 6/03/2009
Postcard: Battenville Garden 1996 13/07/2008
Postcard: Opening Day new poems by William Corbett 28/07/2008
Letter 14/06/2009
Janet Sutherland