The first mowing of the year ...

I guided the growling mower across the wild lawn -

The first mowing of the year -

In my head I heard Selif Keita singing -

I remembered the small lawn outside the lounge of memory -

Andrew Motion's poem -

Would I be so remembered ?

Mowing -

Pale clouds in the sky -

Apples ripening on the tree -

A figure delighting in the fragrance of cut grass and petrol -

Smaller and more stooped each time pictured -

A shadow on bright grass -


11.00
Monday 25 March 2019

The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset