Moonfleet ..

Murphy was undaunted by the tiger skin -

Logs still smouldered in the fireplace -

I gazed for a moment at the head of the polar bear -

We sat on sofas under the high pale ceiling -

There was a painting of four naked women in a garden -

Underfoot was a carpet from a rajah's palace -

I remembered walking to this house in summer -

Following the path along the shore of the Fleet -

The pines casting their long lived shadows -

Swallows flying above the yellow fields -


Monday September 30 2019

Moonfleet Manor Hotel
Dorset