10 September 2019

Clapper Bridge crossing the river Dart in Postbridge, Devon (United Kingdom)

Clappers: quarried flats
laid like tableboards
over stacked supports,
colonised by lichens, moss.

You love the coppery run
of the stream, its scatter of insects
ringed in brightness
the single, slate-finned fish
...

From the Poem Clapper Bridge 
by Fiona Benson