Wednesday, 26 December 2018

The past like wood smoke ...



Logs smouldered in the wood burning stove - 

Boxing Day grandmothers nibbled Lemon Drizzle - 

I turned the pages of my prize -

Despatches from the Peninsula - 

I have the honour to be, &c. Wellington

Praise for a pious youth - 

His character was fair, and unstained by vice

Delicate engravings of deer parks and church towers - 

I loved it all - 

The decorous prose - 

The past like wood smoke - 

Its heady fragrance clinging to these pages - 


13.00
Wednesday 26 December 2018

The Granary
Town Quay
Wareham 
Dorset 




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