The Waters

By stunted oak and withered beech On wind-wild nights she watches From the nightjar in the trees To sing his somber melodies; She’s come by way of Doxey Pond By the bulrush, reed and front Where milk-white moonbeams shatter On the black and silent water As the night pulls tight its shutters Before the coming of the dawn.

In the peat-dark waters whisper The phantoms of the deeps Of an age-old coppiced wood Where the ancient Mere Witch sleeps Her ancient sleep; Still the peat-dark waters seep Below the crumbling cottage walls Draped with pennywort and fern; In the East a darkness falls where the elfin bonfires burn. [...]

  • Lisa Summers, Jenny Greenteeth

Oil on board in antique frame. 120 x 94 cm framed.

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