Voices in the Coalshed: Pit Wood Walk

Voices in the Coalshed: Pit Wood Walk

Pit Wood Walk by Volunteer Dave.

 

Pliable hazel

Fashioned by basket weavers

Youngsters hurrying

 

Willow withies wave

Where once the headstock wheels turned

Fast grown biomass

 

Oaken wagonways

Endured trundling of coal trucks

Timber strutted staithes

 

Norwegian spruce sown

And sawn to prop up the world

In-by colliers

 

Pear cut and seasoned

Fine grain planed smooth and prepared

Fresh inked for the press

 

Hickory chosen

For the pick handle and shock

Iron head on rock

 

Or ash wood maybe

For that hard driving hammer

The banjo perhaps

 

Alder may be best

Turned into clogs or charcoal

Propping up Venice

 

Lignum vitae weighed

In the hand of a collier

Becomes light relief

 

Ginko – Dawn Redwood –

Araucaria fallen

Petrified darkness