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BS 12 B 21
By Elena Brake

Try some others
hear they are the same
or just about
or close enough
the colours disagree.
One is the lightest moss
on silver birch trunks
that part before
its edges whiten
peppermint
the downy tops of sage.

Its closest match
more golden - RAL 770-1
even when shadowed
is trapped in a beam
of autumn sun
beginnings of yellowed leaf
rust stains underneath
pressed through.

We build a hedgerow
match existing railings
all its little leaves in shades
of green –

all variations on a theme
of BS 12 B 21
or moorland green.

Woven Paths