Odd to think of myself as a young man
Not so in this conservatory
Of quiet conversations
Wheel chairs
Plant sales
Breakfast specials
Old folk know how to find a bargain
My mother would have said
They have to I might have replied
I would like just now to think of her
As a spirited and joyful vibrant young girl
Here sat drinking lemonade at our table
She turns from South and North
Blows to East and West
Warm air a gift of the Gulf Stream
Nurture me, share my love
How do we watch the wind
Bend the blades of grass
Turned with an unexpected phrase
A smile in the most definite direction
Warm feeling a gift of the long embrace
Nurture me, share my love
Ask for the clouds to pass over
For the sunlit-smiles always to beam
All of one day
Without of conversation
Without of lemonade
Without of the stroke
Of a horse and plough in harness
All of one day
Under dry skies of summer
Under nourished
Under touched
By a summer overgrown with rain
Near on
By the Legbourne copse and woods
At the end
Of the public maintained highway
Clay soil
Turned over, over the corn-crop stubble
Crossed roads
Of footpaths and bridleways
A steel wind
Blows through the baring trees
Pursing over my neck
Driven through the car's sunroof
The sun shines in among my hair
Yes this is a vast time
Of blue skies and grey clouds
An afternoon's escape
Where, in slow sloped fields
Loud thoughts whispered
And nettles bent
As the door slammed
If I sit here long enough
The night will come
The rain will fall
I will have completed
Ex.1 Lucy Jones: Looking at Self
Ex.2 Mathew Shelton: Delineate
Ex.3 Derek Sprawson: Sojourn
Ex.4 Various Artists: Abstraction
Ex.5 Jesûs Mari Lazkano: The Curve of Destiny
Video Poem: After the Carrier (Funicular Railway up to Mount Artxanda)
Ex.6 Nora Fok: Seeing Dragons
Ex.7 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska: We the Moderns
Video Poem: Gaudier Brzeska Line
Ex.8 Various Artists: Degree Show
Ex.9 Pierre Deuse: Lumière et Intériorité
Ex.10 Various Artists: Ancient and Modern
Ex.11 Alice Maher: Natural Artifice
Ex.12 Various Artists: Poets in the Landscape
Extra: An interview with the poet
