Haystack

Look! Rats and the children run out from

their hiding places in the haystack to

dance in front of us in a merry line?

Who else do you think hides here?

 

Do you have a memory of haystacks or

artist’s haystacks?

(Perceval’s Angel)

 

Tumble down the Haystack

dreaming columns of Greece.

 

Tumble down the Haystack

​              with childhood farming friends.

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Tumble down the Haystack

​              to horses and the cows.

 

Now,

climb up that artist’s Haystack

and tumble down again.

 

June Perkins​