...wood-smoke and light from a tinker's caravan camped in a sunk lane, hawthorn hedge splodged with drying linen - red green and blue parakeets perched fluttering pierced on white may, and beyond, in the moon, bright red cusp of railway lines gleaming...
- Peter Reading, About How Many?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
...wood-smoke and light from a tinker's caravan camped in a sunk lane, hawthorn hedge splodged with drying linen - red green and blue parakeets perched fluttering pierced on white may, and beyond, in the moon, bright red cusp of railway lines gleaming...
- Peter Reading, About How Many?, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981