A track of dust and rock
Climbs above villages and farms
Past worked land and close-knit pine
And broken walls of bright dry stone
To fence
And chain
Hides and holds a hole of industry gone
A quarry site
Grows over with grasses and scrub
Hard-stemmed plants determined to stay
In the hollow
Where moisture gathers
In shadows
And metre-high walls of cleaved bedrock
Exposed – reveals
The character of small-scale extraction
Where roots now find air
Follow water
And buildings – clustered and re-formed
Tell stories of fire and liquid rock
Arches re-purposed
Frame history evolving
Natural material
Made visible
Scattered – across
Invites
A rethinking
Of permanence
And processing of time
