Kernow

Wraiths of mist
in the lane - last night’s dream
lifting slowly

A shaft of sunlight
finds the moorhens' nest -
Polcuta pond

Silver fields melt to green
patched by winter sun -
the still trees listen

Gulls’ cries
among rooftops and aerials -
Roseland chatter

Hidden tracks
through flooded fields of dream -
January rain

Where field meets sand
a heron waits
in the rush-fringed hollow

Portloe in winter
stacked crab creels and circling gulls -
this old boat, stranded

Motes in their thousands
dance in a beam of light -
today at Trewartha

Patter of syllables
rain on the glass roof -
nocturnal music

A white stag
stilled by the harvest moon -
Veryan Valley

The moon watches
the silver pond -
unbroken silence

Reading Robert Frost,
the stove lit, the cat asleep
this human warmth

An owl in the woods
the log fire stirs -
old dark Cornwall