Last Night’s Rain

Shoreditchpoet
Mar 18, 2021

I walked through Broomwake coppice to the Mill gate,

The path here (they say), dates back to the Bronze Age,

Sole trodden, sallow leaves,

elm, yew and ash, form the mulch path;

The righteous blackbird greets each sunrise from a fallow branch;

Did we not pass this way?

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