Jane Austen's Bicentenary 2017
I picture you, Jane,
selecting scraps of cloth
...
Sometimes I visit the old people
drift round the corner
in the winter light
...
I pour milk from the brown jug
into the bowl like the woman
on the postcard you sent
from Amsterdam,
...
Crimson sails pinned to the sky
fishing smacks becalmed,
the horizon stretches the canvas
to France, as the Cornish jowster
...
Angela Croft is widely published in magazines and online including 40 poems entitled 'Dancing with Chagall' anthologized by Prole Books following an open competition.)
Meadowsweet
Jane Austen's Bicentenary 2017
I picture you, Jane,
selecting scraps of cloth
to patch your quilt with buttercups,
clover, lemon balm
your needle sure as a feather quill
you stitch a song with feverfew,
bluebells, forget-me-nots
and the wood anemone,
this lowly beauty
caught in a flush of sunshine
before the canopy closes.