from, A Country Diary

Oxfordshire (second)

cold winds

cold to come

still to come

winds and is still and heavy rain

is heavy rains

more rain rains here

suggests that more here for summits

suggests that for the last

the hill summits

the last day along the hill

day or two hangs along

or two

and that hangs

and the dim mist

that the dim mist

the dim mist 

from, A Country Diary

Tilton Cutting, Leicestershire

an area

of an area

oak leaves

of oak

of shady browning leaves

of shady damp

and browning

damp tranquillity

goat willow and tranquillity

overhung and goat willow

overhung now

of ash

and now in autumn

foliage of ash

in autumn

with the yellowing foliage

with the yellowing

with the yellowing

an area

of an area

the yellowing

with the yellowing

of an area yellowing

with an area

oak with the yellowing oak leaves

 of foliage

with the leaves of oak

of yellowing foliage

oak of shady browning

with the yellowing

shady browning leaves

in autumn

with the leaves of shady ash

in autumn

of shady damp

of ash

damp and foliage of

and browning in autumn

foliage browning

damp now in autumn

damp tranquillity

and now tranquillity

goat willow

of ash and goat willow

and now of ash and tranquillity

overhung now

tranquillity overhung

and goat willow overhung

overhung and goat willow

overhung and goat willow overhung

from, A Country Diary

Waresley Wood, Cambridgeshire

in this

in crossover and crossover

this dense overlapping

and dense wood

so much overlapping wood there

and so much there

were boughs

and were so many boughs

so many

so many, many trees

trees so trees

to the dying

to the leaves

of leaves dying

log full of log

and twigs full and thickened

and twigs thickened to branches

and to become their own branches

become fresh with their own fresh new trunks

with new trunks

new trunks

new

to the dying

to the new trunks

new dying

to the new trunks

to the leaves, trunks, new leaves of new trunks

of leaves with new leaves

dying trunks with dying

log, new trunks

log full fresh

new full of their own

fresh of log

with their own log and fresh with

and twigs become fresh twigs

full branches become full

and their own branches

and thickened

become their own

thickened and to become

and twigs

and to twigs thickened to branches

and thickened to branches thickened

to branches thickened