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Friday, 23 December 2016

The Scattering of Ashes, by Catherine Redfern,

You will drop down from the cottage,
past the barn, pink-fringed with foxgloves,
down through the fields, the Welsh Blacks unaware,
Cader across the Maddach rising from its bed of clouds.

On down, towards the grey-hazed oaks,
hearing the mew of buzzards mobbed by crows.

Down, down to the cool woods; bluebells
and bracken fronds brushing your legs with dew,
past old walls mottled with soft-hued lichens,
parts fallen now in drifts of willow-herb.

A sudden stomp and bound of solitary sheep.

This is the place. Go, my love, and leave me to its peace.

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