Cresswell's Bridge

Photograph © 2007, Tim Heaton and published on Geograph.

CRESSWELL'S BRIDGE

Five houses
silent
washing flapping in the wind
wind rattling
the corrugated-iron door
of the fresh-looking barn
empty houses
no cars parked
no dogs
no hens
no tractors
some signs
of recent habitation
the wind
cutting the silence
flapping the washing
cutting the silence
rippling the waves on the dyke

a locked gate
over a bridge
bars our entrance to Holland

the wind
offers
no key

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Norwich, 7th April 1971

Publications

1971 Headland (UK)
1976 MEETINGS AT THE MOOR'S EDGE (West Kirkby, Headland)

Note: Have just discovered that the place is actually Casswell's Bridge not Cresswell's Bridge - I must have mis-read the map at the time. The farm would have been Dunsby Fen Farm.

Herbert Howells: Rhapsody #1 Op.17

HERBERT HOWELLS: RHAPSODY No.1 Op.17

(Michael Cleaver on the organ of St.Peter Mancroft, Norwich,
September 8th 1970)

The quiet
ruminative
commencement
The cud-chewing cow
The sense
of no impending
crescendo
until
The bull running wild
The massive
crescendo
is built
reaches climax
Calf-producing coitus
The peaceful
post-ecstacy
relaxation
The time of maturation
follows

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Norwich, 1st September 1970

Publications

1973 Intak' (UK)
1976 MEETINGS AT THE MOOR'S EDGE (West Kirkby, Headland)
1993 Daily Cow (USA)