The Hollow Ways By Dawn McLachlan We shall walk together in the hollow ways On days when colour is blurred by morning rain And worries will be lifted to drift away Through sunken lanes in sun-dappled rays We'll travel slowed down along ancient veins We shall walk together in the hollow ways As high above the great green canopy sways We'll dawdle then until the afternoon wanes And worries will be lifted to drift away In susurrations come whispers of forgotten days Hearing echoes of the distant past and the arcane We shall walk together in the hollow ways In an ancient place, away from sun's blaze We find our own place in a wild domain And worries will be lifted to drift away As the real world feels like a distant haze Take my hand, and walk with me here again We shall walk together in the hollow ways And worries will be lifted to drift away © Dawn McLachlan 2025

I absolutely love hollow ways and in the summer I wrote this villanelle about them.
Hope you like it.

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'A way through the woods' - wood engraving.
I think it finally there, I've been tweaking proofs all afternoon.

DM if you'd like to secure yours now - it should be ready to post out by the middle of next week.

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Printing 'We passed this way' yesterday morning.
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Current work in process 'The way through the woods', struggling to get time to work on this at the moment.

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'We passed this way' - wood engraving.
Exclusively available from my Artwave Festival Show.
Title refers to the ancient #HollowWays , the oldest date back to the early iron age - a miriad human journeys engraved into the face of our landscale.