While

 

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

in the light

silver as a guest

while you're prolonging the medication night

What here is not, there will be

The poplars behind the gym

moving, are a hymn

There will be the switch time

from pity into sorrow

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

But really, what's happening?

What journey takes you anywhere?

The rash landscape eases you out of it

foreign body

You can hammer the landscape

like a digital clown

and say you're sorry

for what went down

tough grubber

an OK face to be

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

Dead, upright elms

mewing of a high kite

rainy brambles, lime litter.

Mushrooms perfect and

in younger days

we stamped on them.

bits of toast too dry for the magpies
Between the units distant hills

Fences stubborn thickets

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

Egg tea, wren

charging

Memory of the rain

in the wet leaves

And maybe there's a bead from the country,

so fully explored

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

The boy concentrates

lying in the kitchen sofa

table half-laid for breakfast

with last night's washed-up plates

sun through the mosquito screens

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

A landscape of little pools obscured by melon-coloured vegetation

Aircraft spraying, climbs into the morning 

horses too valuable

Systems reprocessing untethered terms

Unlike everybody else, the academic

is paid to be honest

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

When we were bouncing

Splashing in the blow-up pool

Lying on the floor drawing pictures

Singing along to 3D animation 

Eating cucumber and arguing

Brushing each other's hair

Sorting what's left

of our jewellery collections 

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

The search for rocksalt standards in art

art standards

standards in art criticism

bricks, weeds, horizons

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

Pardon me

I was for sale

I drank and smoked

I read what I might have burnt instead

Excused myself because of the grey sky

Emigrated for good, left one story for none,

and can't you say the same?

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica). Oldford (Somerset), 29 July 2023.

Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica, Sv: Rödkörvel). 

Throughout British Isles except the extreme north. South and west Sweden (only reaching the Baltic in Uppland and Åland). Wide old-world distribution, from Japan to Western Europe. The late-summer successor to Cow Parsley and Rough Chervil.