This poem is taken from PN Review 106, Volume 22 Number 2, November - December 1995.
Border Songs
engraved on glass screens in the County Records & Research Centre, Shrewsbury
I
Ridgeway
to river crossing
hill trades with downland
lava flow with chalk outcrop
axeheads for arrowheads
Corndon's polished picrite
for the flints
of the Breckland
leaf-shaped
barbed and tanged
whatever
gives an edge
II
Behind the timber-lace
of ramparts
...
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