Lanolin Rising
Note: “If the lanolin has risen you will see the old wool further out and then a little new clean sparkling wool next to the skin and in between a tide mark of yellow sticky oily stuff. That’s the rise mark and if you cut to that, you won’t go far wrong. As soon as it’s clear of the skin, get shearing!” Lachlanandmarcus on www.accidentalsmallholder.net
Find an accessible Google doc version of this poem here.
Di Slaney lives in Nottinghamshire where she runs Manor Farm Charitable Trust and Candlestick Press. Widely published, broadcast and anthologised, she was the winner of The Plough Poetry Prize 2022. Her collections are Reward for Winter and Herd Queen, with Hard Graft forthcoming 2025, all from Valley Press.
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