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Her work is done

By Hope Bagot Poet Laureate Hope Bagot Village

Monday, 28 January 2019

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In the heart of a towering ash

silhouetted against the watery winter light

she stands forlorn and

creaks and groans her wooden shackles tight

rusting but wanting to galvanise

and bring that sparkling flow

not be condemned to gaze

at the sheep that graze

beneath her scelerotic vanes.

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Hope Bagot, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 3AF

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