Stanza Stone II - Puddle Stone

Just been up on the moor to take this shot of Puddle Stone - another in the Stanza stone series. It was a bit dark and windy up there, and attempts to get the text on these 2 slabs weren't impressive. The sky was dramatic, so thought I'd make something of their drama.

Alice in Blipland has caught the stones better in her first to blip the puddle stone.

Here's your man - Simon Armitages poem.

Puddle Stone

Rain Junk
Sky Litter
Sunday Mornings
Atlantic storm horses
Clatter this way
Shedding their iron shoes
In potholes and ruts
Shoes that melt
Into steel grey puddles
And settle and set
into cloudless mirrors
By noon

The shy deer
Of the daytime moon
Comes to sip from the rim
But the sun likes the look of itself
Stares all afternoon
It's hard eye
Lifting the sheen
From the glass
Turning the glaze to rust
Then we don't see things
For dust.


PS just cropped and reloaded photo as the thumbnail composition was better than my original