Worminster

There is a green which despite the county’s supposed or former status as ‘garden of England’ you do not see in Kent nor in the wetness of East Anglia but which rather intensifies as you move west, it is the green of course of County Cork as it faces the ocean but also of Cornwall and Wales and of here, where the grass glows almost against the thick red soil and the last of the bear’s garlic along the paths and the rivers; it is a green born of course of rain, torrential when it comes, turning the hill-roads into streams, the sheep into sponges, the pigs into paintbrushes, the thick red soil into thick crimson mud.

By Thom Eagle, 18 May 2021