OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEW ESTATE

NEW DWELLINGS ALMOST ALL ALIKE DRIED MUD EVERYWHERE PINK VALERIAN OVER THERE STONES HALF BRICKS LEFT IN SPARSE CLUMPS OF NEW LAND AND IN AMONGST THE LANDFILL DAISIES GROW AND LITTLE BUTTERCUPS SMILE FOR A WHILE CLOVER GROWS OVER THE DENSE PATCHES OF LAND AT PRESENT NO BOUNDARY NO WALLS TO DIVIDE THE FRONT GARDENS NOT CREATED YET

BUT IT WILL IMPROVE NEW PEOPLE WILL TAKE OVER AND SET OUT THEIR BOUNDARY AND GARDENS WILL BE PLANNED FOLK WILL MAKE THE ESTATE THEIR OWN

THIS PIECE IS DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER GLADYS WHOSE BIRTHDAY WAS 26TH APRIL SHE BECAME ENGAGED TO MY FATHER ALBERT ON HER 21ST BIRTHDAY HE WAS 28 YEARS OLD THEY WERE MARRIED FOR 38 HAPPY YEARS NEVER LIVED ON AN ESTATE BUT HAD A RATHER LOVELY SMALL HOUSE NEAR WHITBY NORTH YORK