02 November 2025

White Cottage

Leaf 197 – Looking Back

 

Edith & Rowland Hilder - Tansy and Chicory (Wild Flowers, 1957)


This is a poem from the sweltering hot summer of 2003 – written when I was living in rural Bedfordshire.

 

 

Looking from the window,

that small white cottage

on the horizon,

                             she says

– was once her home.