Peter Burrows is a librarian in the North West of England. After recently starting to write again his poems have appeared in The North; The Interpreter’s House; Ink, Sweat and Tears and other journals, and most recently in Coast to Coast to Coast; Marble Poetry; The Curlew; Dodging the Rain; Dream Catcher; Northwords Now and shortlisted in The Hedgehog Press Cupid’s Arrow Love Competition.
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Spring
Sourcing its descent
slinking across sloping track
meltwaters headwaters bubbling fresh
swell and overflow the leafy stone trough
this running spill almost invisible
dashripples splits as outstretched fingers
spread
ambles aside runs
back in
a dog lick a light slick
trickling mirage
fizzing tyres unseen
softly scours
shifts grit tumbles gravel
mudsplashes rock
gently gouges tracks
insects leaves debris
caught helpless
eddy its wet-eyed pools
each year hatched toads
hundreds upon hundreds
ford its wet plains deltas that hold
delay as thought charged swirling before
once more drop chases drop
fast past its surrounds relaid tracks
adjacent farm
channels divines senses in unison
its undeniable descent escapes
under gate down grassy cascades
culverts awash
flushing the lush field’s brook
just before the Limey’s flow
continues
its endless course
Peter Burrows