The War Office called for a water-diviner 

at Gallipoli – Çanakkale Savaşı. 

Instead, four geologists disembarked,

ready to find water, each marked

by a sunburned patch on the back of their neck.

A diviner was wanted, not geologists

No-one had yet surveyed the land

below North Hill – the central axis of the malvern

range. The most ancient, where rowan branches

grow to dowsing rods. Where the geologist’s wife

First Slips on the wet grass, breaks course, 

knowing these rocks are absent.