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Mary Garratt

Mary Garratt 20th. August 1996
With thanks to Clare Weir
and Linda Berrie

One Incredible Day

One day we journeyed
Through space and time
From Day of Formation
Past avenues of lime

We saw new technology
And ice - age terraces,
A small weasel scurry
And planets’ places.

Our Universe before us
And Nature around,
Pulsars’ dot - dashes,
A humming bee’s sound.

All in a few miles
In rural Cheshire.
Quinta and Jodrell Bank
Gave so much pleasure

Rosamund Tanner-Tremaine November 2006

Jodrell Bank

In mist of early morning
slender legs stride into view
carefully carrying enormous
upturned mushroom caps
catching spores from space.

The swirl of mist covers, reveals
dwarfed trees and scattered hides of watchers.
Within
screens show streams of magic numbers
to mathematical wizards...
to interpret
to hope.

Now is all we have
In early morning mist we are alone.

Life is
too short to stuff a mushroom