Frogspawn in the Boating Pond
As tethered pleasure boats bobbed, wrapped In puddled, sunken tarpaulins Frogs tested the water again unnoticed By hurrying walkers behind umbrellas Then mornings broke in a sitting haze We breathed in the tangible air with anticipation Boats and walkers were unwrapped Stirring up the tadpole beds They flicked and darted about the two-stroke The rainbow slicks, cigarette butts As we gulped down the air in chunks That kept us alive just for now How do YOU feel about Phyllis Calvert? What is Midcenturyology? It's the mid 20th century way of looking at geography, archaeology and local history. It's AA touring books, Red Guides or Shell archaeology gazetteers. It's Dalesman magazines or exhibitions at the Festival of Britain. You might glance it on an old railway poster or on a postcard. It is art and poetry that celebrates places and the people that made them in the pre computer age that I come from.