
In this week’s Poetry Corner, we feature the work of poet Josephine Dickinson, author of the book, “Silence Fell.” She lives in Alston, the remote Cumbrian mining town high in the Pennines, since 1994.
June
Evening. A cool June. Hand in hand
we walk round the garden, dodging
loose stones, gaps where the new lawn needs
chocking with ballast, ducking the
windsock wrapping itself round its
pole, checking rows of this and that,
which seeds have failed to show up, which
flowers begin to glow, cold-frame
cucumbers to grow big enough
to finger the panes of glass. But
there is no blossom this year on
the apple tree. It has been too
cold. But when we step round the house
to the front door again and kiss,
we know it is no ordinary
love, this, that we stand in the cold
and the damp of this unusual
cold, wet June (but there are no wars)
and do what we do all the time -
love indoors outdoors just the same.











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