Sidney Beck Poet Free verse

Berwick - On - Tweed Market

BERWICK – ON – TWEED    MARKET



Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the  ancient market place
Sneaky ancient marketeers pace,
Their faces seeking trade:
Fowl, flesh, or fish 
Old or fresh, for cash.


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NOTES


*Bastide  means a  fortified town, often with wide extensive
  earth embankments surrounding the  entire settlement. 

*River Tweed is on the border between England and Scotland

*Berwick is a small town on the border.

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