The Wordscape Of Hertfordshire Poem by Richard George

Conrad laid anchor
on the calm plateau sea
near the shipwreck of Someries Castle
where future Luton Airport planes
would screech in low to land:

GBS, young eighty-five,
leprechauned the emerald
leys round Ayot St.Lawrence
or boot-scrunched the stony track
to Codicote, and the Mimram.

Bunyan went from crypt
to crypt on the Chiltern fields -
Temple End, Witnesses Wood -
to save the inhabitants
of Cockernhoe and Bendish...

and Charles Lamb bought Button Snap
on the lane to the dead villages;
nettle-traps at Westmill Green,
the bulge of buried Wakeley
that informed him: matricide.