Ric Caddel
SEEING SKULL GREEN
(after John Clare)
wandered
that mornings
shade
reasoning mans
brute world-pride
nature
glass vision
shrunk
quarry
weather eaten
sand
stopt his toil
human
refuse
the relic awe
silence
RAG
(after John Clare)
humble
love
her russet
manifold
sunburnt & bare
tints
hues - everywhere
shining
rich
sight
(shadows)
HEAVY
(after John Clare)
night smiles
burnished
on the grass
half sleeping
not even stirring
legs
trembling
-- -- --
shaggy hide
like rivers
& barks
(after John Clare)
wandered
that mornings
shade
reasoning mans
brute world-pride
nature
glass vision
shrunk
quarry
weather eaten
sand
stopt his toil
human
refuse
the relic awe
silence
RAG
(after John Clare)
humble
love
her russet
manifold
sunburnt & bare
tints
hues - everywhere
shining
rich
sight
(shadows)
HEAVY
(after John Clare)
night smiles
burnished
on the grass
half sleeping
not even stirring
legs
trembling
-- -- --
shaggy hide
like rivers
& barks
Copyright © Richard Caddel 1982
Richard Caddel (1949-2003) lived in Durham, in the northeast of England, where he curated the Basil Bunting archive, and established and ran the long-running Colpitts Poetry reading series. As founder and editor of Pig Press, he published books and pamphlets by many poets, including several whose work has appeared in Molly Bloom. His own major works include Sweet Cicely (1983), Uncertain Time (1990), Larksong Signal (1998), For the Fallen (1999), Underwriter (2000) and Writing in the Dark (2003). Magpie Words, a generous selected collection, was published by West House Books in 2002.