Cley Hill
Alice, Bertha, Clementine,
Desmerelda, Ermintrude
plod around the hilltop eating grass;
but old Felicity
climbs to the very top.
It's only a little higher,
but one sees so much more,
from the tumulus.
Armies still march on the Plain.
Deer still run in the Black Dog Wood.
Beneath the earth
the Celt sleeps yet.
© Paul McCombie 2005