Greenlane Poetry

All Saints 3pm
Bad Day
Bar des Sports, Charly-sur-Marne
Before and After the Watershed
Call to Witness
Carte Postale
Charlie
Clerk of Works
Dedication
Dog in the Night
Easter Saturday at Festubert
Fargate
first
Force Nine
Forge Island
Four Chimneys
Four Days in Town
Furnaces
Gwen G
Half Empty
I Dream
In Glen Howe Park
In Provence
Incident
Kilner's Bridge
Lady
Last Train
Lilac Time
Location
Magpies
Man dn Dog
Mungy Lane
North Line
Nurses
Outfield
Painting By Numbers
Passiontide
Patriots
Per Ardua
Pioneers
Poor Pierre
Progress
Release
Rememberings
Romeny
Routine Visit
Runner
Sawn Moor
September
Silent Snakes
Spring Training
Start-1
Students in Crookesmoor
Thatcher
The Don at Swinton
The Festive Season
The Hawk in the Tree
The Lavender Feast at Saullt
The Runners in the Fields
The Seasons
Treatment Days
Trips to the Seaside
Up Train
Valley Mist
vase of Flowers
Weston Park
WestWind
What Love Is
Winthrop Park

--chosen-work--

Valley Mist



The Marne is high
the early bell has called a meagre congregation
from around the valley sides
part hidden by the pall of mist
now rising slowly from the upstream town
the heightening sun defines thin plumes of distant smoke
on lighter ground where mist still hangs on Nogent
while on the northern hills the vines hang down

With their long howl
away across the river morning trains
have borne their burden
in and out of Charles de Gaulle
planes steal through widening blue and fleece
of cloud drifts over different lives
over those who worked the
sulphury grapes since dawn
who take the first glass of this holy day
and count enough the melon, loaf and peace




In the Marne Valley