Casimir and Lidia ...

I walked through the silent garden - 

The doors of the gracious house were open - 

A mist obscured shapely trees - 

I glimpsed beautiful naked figures, men and women, cast in bronze - 

The artist told me she had cast her first figures when she was seventeen - 

She showed me two splendid heads - 

That's Casimir she said - there's Lidia - 

I gazed at the two heads - 

At any moment, I thought, they might part their brazen lips - 

11.30

Thursday 9 June 2016

Steppes Hill House

Langton Matravers

Dorset