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'Pond a plant or plant a pond?'

Poem: Wildlife

'Pond a plant or plant a pond?'

by Steve Day 25th October 2024

Pond a plant or plant a pond?

Yesterday I did both, dug into 

the long grass lawn to sky water 

a small habitat for when next spring emerges

in damsel flies, spawn and Japanese anemones.

Then came the heavy showers that can’t be carried.

They cross the coast unlike anything crushed 

by hurricane winds.

These are thin cloud-scuds breaking 

over those high hills above the A38.