walking looking back

light north wind
high cool cloud streaked sky
hedges
fuchsia blackberry honeysuckle
haws rose
hips nettles fertile ground
rats
far off scurrying trailing tails
dead
fresh spilled guts on tar
hedgehog
gentle face curled in peaceful death
rolls of hay
where cocks used to stand
field of leeks
stubble speckled with black flakes of crows
twin brother tractors
tilling scratching soil
telegraph poles
iron gated railings
and the deserted gate lodge
whose estate was this?
fields of greens
browns yellows stretch
looking into the distance
to the Sugar Loaf Mountain
near the end
of the lane the solid dark truck
Motorway Maintenance
chiming with a beat
“Beware this vehicle is reversing”