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The hill is tossing high, frail wisps of
rosy cloud to glide in steady gale
along a turquoise sky, around, above the
perpendicular and slightly askew columns,
above the triangular gap
between crown and crag…

—Tessa Ransford, “August 3rd”
published in Shadows from the Greater Hill (Ramsay Head Press, 1987)

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/august-3rd/

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A Lawnmower for St. Stephen’s

On the wasteland by the motor arena
Bee-flies and early bumbles
Take nectar from the colonising coltsfoot.
Here rises St. Stephen’s Spire –
The Anglican analogue
To Pugin’s St. Mary’s – 
And here, on this April day,
The vicar and his wife frown
With heads together
At the manual for the lawnmower
They’d lifted gleaming from the van.
They must see God in manufacture
As they do in all and everything - 
In the fossil fuel the mower burns,
In the monoculture grass it neatly clips.
And like Saint Augustus,
Who threw off monastic aloofness,
The vicar sets about the mowing –
that humble, humbling service -
Of the grass the bumbles never visit,
Bringing nascent summer
And a faintly droning childhood ache
To the workers by St. Stephen’s by the city.

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Wisdom all around
I count the trees as good friends
We have much to learn

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