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A one pub village-the Cotswolds
The Totternhoe Chalk Stone
weathered, firm grey and brown co-mingled.
Corner edging buttressed.
The outskirts of hedgerows lined roads
Lawrence and the motor bike
in the sunlight until there was silence.
Set in the green grass
under the blue sky shadowed by clouds,
intermittent rain now cleared,
the Chalk Stone waits.
Grass plot surrounded by close in
green foliage, trees nurtured by the rain
next to the resting place where they have come.
Stones made of the same Totternhoe Chalk
once labelled, now weathered, indistinct names, dates
decipherable only in parish records.
Today the family gathers
to bring home to family
dust to dust and ashes to ashes.
Copyright © David Holmes | Year Posted 2019
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