for Vivienne and Charles
A year now since our friends cut the grasses
to the ground, the Karl Fosters that you chose
and we planted with such gusto
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‘Perfect,’ you said, when you managed to look out
and surveyed the bare garden –
You knew that it would all flourish again
But you can’t have imagined the coronavirus
whose shape and colour we admired
in a Guardian report from China in January
would bring the garden to such stillness all summer
A hundred bees in the lavender my only company
the grasses growing to their highest yet
Vincent Woods co-directed and produced (with Edwina Guckian) the film Bealach an Fhéir Ghortaigh/Hunger’s Way for Strokestown International Poetry Festival. He directs the Iron Mountain Literature Festival in Co Leitrim
