Peter Finch
Wynd Cliff
Wordsworth's untrammelled
wildness romantic path up 365 steps
to the edge of the Wye's Wynd cliff
no waymarks a wrecked cottage
where they once sold teas an
unreadable notice shot to buggery
by preyless hunters he went
up here with Coleridge exalted through
a pre-raphaelite wreck of moss and riven
rock saw the sylvan river wrote nothing
down at the top the fields are flaked
with frost couple in the distance
exercising an alsation kestrel scratching
the silent sky I take a leak in a mess
of bramble spotted immediately by
a bold walker striding rucksacked
from the trees the synchronicity of the
wilderness we do not nod
wildness romantic path up 365 steps
to the edge of the Wye's Wynd cliff
no waymarks a wrecked cottage
where they once sold teas an
unreadable notice shot to buggery
by preyless hunters he went
up here with Coleridge exalted through
a pre-raphaelite wreck of moss and riven
rock saw the sylvan river wrote nothing
down at the top the fields are flaked
with frost couple in the distance
exercising an alsation kestrel scratching
the silent sky I take a leak in a mess
of bramble spotted immediately by
a bold walker striding rucksacked
from the trees the synchronicity of the
wilderness we do not nod
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