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Lake district ice radial, Eden ice once south
Piling drumlins across the grains of the draws
And Pennine passes, as Midgehome to Hallbankgate
To the steps and terraces in light greys and dark shales rhythm
Yoredale sequences repeating each other
Limestone sandstone shale, limestone sandstone shale

Basil’s “masculine landscape”, provoking history and response
Limekiln, freestone quarry, roadstone, riprap, building, walling
Hushing for the lead and silver below, bell-pitting and washing

Mallerstang ice nudged northeasterly
Dumping the Seven Hills cluster on Stainmore
Since springsapping, trapping insects
Curlew-nesting country, basket-of-eggs topography
Drumlins again, said burial-ground of Bloodaxe;
Reluctant to carry him back to York from Rey Cross

Briggflatts a soft touch for tramps and tinsnips
Where, all eyes on the off-comer, keep tight ships
Linen and preaching forgotten but for the Meeting House.

Boxcar across Nebraska and long treks across Badlands
Pine Ridge has its rhythms, not less regular across Montana
More than rails and changes in pitch of the wind and grade

Flats’ mystery as Flat Greek here and in Wyoming
tracks laid on bison highways, between the humps
passes for posses of Bunting-grunting wild mustangs…

Rapid City through the slats in a cattle truck, as a camera
Sees and a film is wound the word across several truncated
                                                                                          exposures
Seemed to read KENTIGERN rattling an old stick at the bars
At Joe’s place one called Raistrick recalling the
                                                                      geohistmorphologist
Whose view of Penyghent complements Kentigern’s from this Cross
The Holm Bar is his, shoals of less-cloudlets are his fish.