through forests of tangle & whole high stood woods of oaks, beeches, holly, & badgers snuffles a lonelier-than-thou old almost silent hedgepig in- visible & out of shadows seasons oak apples mardy old spider-crunching red leaf & green down through perhaps soft mulch moulder these savagery this grumpy & quite ancient prickly individual snout quivering still & quietly through a heat haze eases wordless complaints curses
"through forests of..."
(I don't have a copy - it took ages to track one down.)
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