Sodden by Richard Martin

Only yesterday
I'd been struck by the beauty
of autumn trees
on the hillside –
now,
as cloud and drizzle
veil the landscape,
sodden is the only word
that comes to mind –
as though memories
had been blotted out,
the past no more
than empty words
and soaking woods.



Richard Martin is an English writer who lives in the Netherlands close to the point where Belgium, Germany and Holland meet. After retiring as a university teacher in Germany, he turned his attention to writing, and has published three collections of poetry and numerous poems in magazines in England, the US, and Austria.