| Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864 |
Rob Hindle
ISBN-13 978-0-9550023-4-2
PB £3.00
This pamphlet is one of the three winning submissions to the 2006 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition.
ANN TRICKET'S SAMPLER (1815)
Found at Warren Vale, Rawmarsh, about 12 miles downstream from the Trickett farmhouse at Malin Bridge.
Bright red of poppies
for the grapes round the border.
Red too for the pots of roses.
She has never seen grapes
or heard the word terracotta.
The verses worry her.
The Lord my pasture shall prepare
disturbs her work. On the hill
the sharp, bare shapes of trees
shake at an empty sky.
And guard me with a watchful eye.
She bends close, working the bright gold
of birds below her name.
The words of the psalm are black
and rigid. In the paths of death I tread
With gloomy horrors overspread.
There is a grand, strong house
with a portico and three broad steps
down to an avenue of limes.
There is a fishpond in a dark ground
with ducks on it, beaks touching
almost. Some sheep and deer
stand near the water. A dog is sniffing
the air, the short day's end.
And streams shall murmur all around.
© Rob Hindle 2006