excerpt from Farm by the Shore
small oats rye bere barley
ripe harvest in late summer
a shallow ploughing
grazing and fallow in rotation
corncrake and corn bunting
great yellow bumble bee
oystercatcher lapwing golden plover
orchid vetch and clover
when no one is home
the strawberry roan
stands in the rain
forlorn
mattress of heather
of bracken or eelgrass
pillow of cottongrass
stuffed with a down
of coltsfoot or reedmace
floor strewn with bog myrtle
strong rope of heather
honeysuckle bridle
twisted birch bark tether
fish trap of sedge
purple moor-grass anchor rope