The cuckoo is back and all's right with the world
by Paul Evans from Environment | The Guardian on (#2QHSA)
Wenlock Edge, Shropshire This is the cow parsley moment, its blossom making foamy bow waves against hawthorn hedges along the road
The lanes are luminous with the white pulse of May: cow parsley, hawthorn, hogweed, garlic, stichwort. In fields there are pale lambs and dandelion clocks and stands of horse chestnut in candle. White on green. Green on white.
It is evening and the birds are fractious. I am listening to an old story so nearly forgotten that its retelling sounds strange and new.
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