The first poem in James Caruth’s sequence Tithes (featured in the anthology The Footing, due from Longbarrow Press spring 2012).
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Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
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You can listen to James Caruth read the poem here.
