Michael Longley(b. 1939)
Gorse Fires
Cattle out of their byres 0 are dungy still, lambscowsheds
Have stepped from last year as from an enclosure.
Five or six m e n stand gazing at a rusty tractor
Before carrying implements to separate fields.
I am travelling from one April to another.
It is the same train between the same embankments.
Gorse fires are smoking, but primroses burn
And celandines and white may and gorse flowers.