Remembering reading The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

The river had spilled over the water meadows - 

The lane to Highwood was a thin ribbon wavering across a pale lake - 

Flood water swirled against the lichened trunks of alder trees - 

I remembered reading The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - 

I gazed at the brimming ditches -

Light going -

Time soon to walk into the water -

To vanish like Pearl -

Segment by segment -

As if descending an invisible flight of stairs - 

East Stoke

Dorset 

November 2024