Kinbuck 6133 Unodourised Gas
Installation
After Edward Thomas
Yes, I saw the
name - white letters on a blue board
looming through
the smirr one sodden July afternoon
on the Kinbuck-Braco
Road.
No Gas Board
vans, no men in hard hats and high-vis vests
but there had to
be something leaking
from that lumpen
mess of pipes and ducts
to rile the farmland
gulls to such a high hollering rave
though when I
leaned my bike against the gate
all I could smell
was wet grass and wet dock
and buttercup and
cow parsley rising moistly
through the
summer mush
then somewhere a
gusty breath of gorse
and broom and dog
rose and vetch
and, farther and
farther, all the rainy
blooming life of
Perthshire and Stirlingshire.
