This poem is taken from Stand 225, 18(1) March - May 2020.

Jane Lovell Execution, 1554 (artist unknown)
Execution, 1554 (artist unknown)

Before he mixed the ochre:
wing feather of linnet,
leaf of copper beech, trodden clay;

before he painted in that squiggled vein –
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