Hi Mary
Thanks for that. As the title suggests, it is essentially an ekphrastic piece. I will put a couple of links under the title. One of them is a photo of the Stokenchurch/Aston Rowant cut, and the other is a painting that sums up the look of the Chiltern hills. Aston Rowant is actually a nature reserve, though I’m not sure it was when the cut was being made. Oddly, this particular painting was not a prompt for the poem. I discovered it only this morning when looking for an image that matched what was in my head. (Is there a technical name for that?)
And perhaps I should find a better title though I did quite like that it was very specific and also obscure – the name of the feature is not well known I think, even in the UK.
I have also changed the line containing “circumscribed” (S2L2) which may improve it for you.
Thanks again.
Joe
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