Sheriffhall
Rent from DeepDyve- Sheriffhall
to Geoffrey Hill
What fields became: you,sneck-blasted cover-boy
for New Age prospects;some raspberries, wormyboth to touch & taste;
a lone horse croppinggrass from gorse. I can't
rework a photographthe mind pawns, forwardspast this powder keg
of Pentland storms. Railpath,not much used
because it terminateshere, at the bypass, a trafficroundabout. Rotary,
we call them back at homewhere they are rare& vaguely Communist.
They rely on man's goodwillto man. Surelythis amuses you, in Boston [End Page 46]
's one-way purgatoryof cod & sleet. Hogweed,white dead-nettle,
runoff plugged with wasteor worse; rank betony.
Love amerces love, & allproper cares of love'sinflection. Earth remands:
some walls of rubble-stone.A diverent resurrection. [End Page 47]
G. C. Waldrep's most recent books are Your Father on the Train of Ghosts, a collection with John Gallaher (BOA Editions), and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, coedited by Joshua Corey (Ahsahta P). He teaches at Bucknell University, edits West Branch, and serves as editor at large for the Kenyon Review.
