Gather, East Leicestershire, February 2021 | Mark Goodwin & Nikki Clayton
Posted: February 15, 2021 Filed under: Mark Goodwin 2 Commentsto climb through
a snowflake’s
lattice
or go
the way of
crows through
trees
that way or
this snow
tele
graph
pole
here
in the
snow
listen for
white
no
lief’s
thic
ken
ing
edge
a way
of sky
starts
to flake
prop
cultivation’s
marks in
fields
with a tractor
of dream
now as
trees’ feet
tread along
hedges
a sky’s
solidity
drags
over ground
snow’s
harrow
in a winter’s
fields go
gather
memories’
white falling
feathery
specks
for years trees
as children
walked on
the spot
and now
as snow cleans
away most
details
it can
be seen
that the dark
ness of
wood just
as flesh
has thickened
the snowcloud’s
receding
edge trails
( through the clear
blue )
pieces of
soft
falling
branches that
call us
back
or tracks
across
ground
that un
ravel our
distances
or is it
that fine
line
bord
er where
sky’s will al
ways el
udes
us
cattle may pass
through a gate
way
just as light
may fra
cture
and frisk
across snow
whilst moles
move
Photographs by Nikki Clayton
Poems by Mark Goodwin
The photographs were taken on 10 February 2021, during a walk that began & ended at the medieval village of Old Ingarsby, and took in the medieval villages of Quenby & Cold Newton. The photograph with the church is of the village of Hungarton, approaching from the south.
Mark Goodwin‘s publications include All Space Away and In (Shearsman, 2017), Steps (Longbarrow Press, 2014), and a new collection, Rock as Gloss (Longbarrow Press, 2019), acclaimed by Andy Clarke in Climber magazine as ‘An exhilarating journey through the glorious variety of UK rock, including mountain rhyolite, eastern grit, Llanberis slate… a fascinating and rewarding collection that amply repays backtracking and re-reading.’ Click here to visit the Rock as Gloss microsite for extracts, essays and audio recordings. You can also order the hardback via PayPal below:
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Amazing work, again, Mark. Live it!
Lovely Mark. So nice to still know you are inspired and writing. I am still doing audio reads of my infrequent poetry. http://www.soundcloud.com/tarabud