break      O
pen

brake

beside the stones
break on the rocks

stone breaker
the rhythmic pound
ing    pound
ing    pound

chippings crunched
under the march
ing feet march
ing feet
'herpath''

line break
white space

never a white space in nature
lone stone in a windswept moor

teems buzzard circled
lark-staccato
kestrel eyeing
the hopping grasses

 

Copyright © Tilla Brading, 2006.

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Tilla Brading lives in Nether Stowey, Somerset, in Coleridge's cottage. Her most recent publication is Notes in a Manor: of speaking (Leafe Press, 2002). More recently she has been working on a poetic collaboration with Frances Presley, concerning stone circles on Exmoor.