Earth-bound
The gardener has mown the lawn
where the bluebells grew…
If you looked carefully
maybe you’d see
an indentation
where a woman lay down
for half an hour
one May afternoon
on that sea of tranquillity
and floated for a while
outside her body
beneath the healing sky,
just the nodding bells
and the scent of damp grass
keeping her earth-bound.
Vivienne Tregenza is an award-winning Cornish poet whose first collection Conversations with Magic Stones (poems in memory of Barbara Hepworth) has been nominated by Indigo Dreams Publishing for the Forward Prize for First Collection and the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2026. She’s working on her second collection.