Mercia - (By David Hurt)

Babba Laccu: A Winter Scene - (By David Hurt)

Offerings were given to her,

Just before the flecks of white appeared with the frosted fog

From the blue above us...

Wishes and hopes were made,

For a productive harvest

Come spring

In the year that follows...

Eyes became dazed

Of the spectacle

That charmed them...

The spectacle of the flecks

Of the white rain...

The flecks bonded with the frosted fog and powdered the trees

So they sparkled in the sunlight,

Like dust from nymphs...

Then,

Speckles of larger flecks

Softened the ground

With a crisp carpet of white...

Then,

Babba Laku

Became stone water

And delicate to tread...