Occupation
We try to fettle the spaces
around us – the pile of books
on a bedside table; the chronology
of an artist’s work in a gallery;
the lay-out of fields and roads,
hedged and fenced, across wild land.
Here the middle of the field is a shore,
A road bridge over a pool connects
two more pools. Floodwaters
pour into the gaps, choppy as a sea –
a semaphore of tree tops and gates
poking through – a language no one can speak.
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor, Devon. Cinnamon Press published her second poetry collection, A Handful of Water, in 2013, as well as her second novel What the horses heard, in 2014. Her website is www.rebeccagethin.wordpress.com