Geoff Stevens
Adjacent to Life and Bishop's Stortford
Family groups
grasses, wild flowers
trees
occupy Perry Green
the fields
seventy acres
of land
a twentieth-century
stone-age race
polished smooth
unmoving
pin-head people
naked
nature
lovers
or merely cast out
into the formal garden
the sheep pastures
of Henry Moore
to gaze forever
a lichen-like patina
of verdigris
woad-like
on their weather-resisting
bodies
and
no answers
in their
tiny unblinking
eyes
grasses, wild flowers
trees
occupy Perry Green
the fields
seventy acres
of land
a twentieth-century
stone-age race
polished smooth
unmoving
pin-head people
naked
nature
lovers
or merely cast out
into the formal garden
the sheep pastures
of Henry Moore
to gaze forever
a lichen-like patina
of verdigris
woad-like
on their weather-resisting
bodies
and
no answers
in their
tiny unblinking
eyes
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