Clydesdales
in the field that starts where woodland ends
five megalithic beasts stand their great stone feet
in the dew waiting for the sun to shorten
their shapes three are the colour of stout two
a deep nut ale flanks twitch as if something
wakes within nostrils snort alive against
a blue sky small clouds that carry themselves
to a silver dollar moon hanging cold above
Nick’s first collection the riding and his pamphlet the necessary line were published by Half Moon Books, Otley. His recent collaboration with York based artist Myles Linley, between two rivers, was published by Maytree Press, Marsden.
He helps organise Rhubarb at the Triangle, a spoken word evening in Shipley, West Yorkshire.
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