Feb 2016
The line that brought everything
Took it all back
Sheepdogs, a mangle, a childs cry
Every year more stones dislodged
Forest inched over seeded slopes
Road lost itself a second time
Winters erased more
The crow mocked
Name and echo
Shrank into spruce
Took it all back
Sheepdogs, a mangle, a childs cry
Every year more stones dislodged
Forest inched over seeded slopes
Road lost itself a second time
Winters erased more
The crow mocked
Name and echo
Shrank into spruce
Once again we are in the Borders. Riccarton Junction used to be on the Carlisle-Edinburgh railway line. The only access to the outside world was by the railway. A community lived and died there. To me, it is another example of a beautiful , haunted place.
