Katrina Porteous
Shanky
Shanky is all England:
A barn-conversion.
Strangers in four-by-fours. Forgotten
Names: the Butty Meadow. Shanky Hall.
The nugget of a chapel.
Faith in ruins.
Down the Long Nanny Burn
A green gate leans.
Dark, witchy hawthorns
Point along the leat
To Shanky Mill,
Its bricked-up windows, walls
Empty, its rafters open
To the swifts, the rain;
The knotted fabric of the farm
Shrunk, first, to one man
Alone in his tractor cabin,
Radio on; then
To no one
But the nostalgic, who like it here
At nightfall, when
Black cows wallow in the burn
And the low sun
Floods everything golden.
From The Blue Lonnen, (Jardine Press 2007).
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