Dawn Hogarth-burton Poems

As the season crawled across the fields
It sent a signal in the silence
The hemlocks sensed it
Upheld crisp and blackened umbels in a
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I stood there wrapped in renewed defences
In the warmth of the sun, as the winter had ended,
Among the new growth springing up from the dead
Eyes closed, reciting your words in my head
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A long walk to get there, directions taken, warning given
The rooks not impressed by my intrusion
And the long grass stems were bent over
Hung with shivering craneflies still in shock from hatching
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