Tag Archives: beech

TRENINNOW LANE

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Universal Octopus

Treninnow Lane is tangleddark and overgrownwith angledbeech and arching sycamore.No cars drive downand fern and nettle,dandelion and dock slumberin this extraordinary summer’s heat. Spiders’ webs are spun tightand Speckled Woods and Tortoiseshells meet,lifting and drifting,in and out of pools of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blondin | Tagged ancient scents, beech, being, birdsong, Blondin, dandelion, exile, FERN, innocently wise, nettle, old ghosts, seeing, summer's heat, sunlight, Sycamore, Tortoiseshells | Leave a comment

MAGDALEN

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Universal Octopus

In the Fellows’ Gardens,past the Deer Park,a willow twists and stretchesout of a brown poollike a giant Nāgatrailing garlands of green lace. Along the avenues of Addison’s Walk,among birch and beech,chestnuts stretch out their brancheslike semaphores,and hang their leaves like … Continue reading →

Posted in Oxford Blues | Tagged Academics, beech, birch, chestnuts, Deer Park, living, Magdalen, Michaelmas, Odysseus, Oxford, Oxford University, World's End | Leave a comment

MOUNT EDGCUMBE

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Universal Octopus

Here the descendants of Bosworth Fieldbuilt their Eden from forest, bracken, heath;bred partridge, pheasant, boar and deer,then cast their shadow of darkening fear,stretched out their handsand filled their woods with death. Built Tudor house and Tudor fort,enclosed the land with … Continue reading →