Once
by Robin Fulton Macpherson
Big pond or small loch,
higher than the road,
unseen from the road.
Once, seven decades
ago, I saw it.
Wide water-lilies.
Metal dragonflies.
Peat water seething.
Bog-myrtle lungfulls.
Long-distance curlews.
Big pond or small loch,
higher than the road,
unseen from the road.
Once, seven decades
ago, I saw it.
Wide water-lilies.
Metal dragonflies.
Peat water seething.
Bog-myrtle lungfulls.
Long-distance curlews.
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