30 MARCH 1985, Page 26

Juxtapositions

Six decades gone and one to come, In summer leaves I read, autumn.

July foliage, winter form: Beech in leaf and barebones elm.

I saw a salmon leap and fail, Fail and leap where water fell.

A wake of wild geese flying by A river mirroring their sky.

Low river, slow river, heron Slow also, loth to go, going.

David Wright