PICKINGS

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ACROSS THE STOUR VALLEY
Across the Stour Valley
the green barley shivers
and the Fison bags
wave away the crows
and pheasants
and on the allotments
old men attend
their plots

"Gemmill's got a good man"

old man Gill
shouts across
to Gemmill's good man
with a dog at his side
chewing his overalls
and above them
on a Roman mound
stands a cow
chewing
and out of the corn
runs a rabbit
terrified
at everything
that passes by
and down by the road
which follows the river
one chimney
expels a trail
of smoke
that weaves
by day
with swallows
and at dusk
with
bats
RUPERT MALLIN
from
New Hope Two

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