Village child

[Aish]

Rumpled grey-sock days
scuffed-shoe, scabbed-knee days [b]Reading 'days' so close together threw me off your rhythm a bit. Perhaps 'afternoons' or some other substitution?[/b]
distances were longer then Are you saying 'longer then' as a glance backward in time, or 'longer than'? A comma after L4 would help with the delineation.
closer to the ground.

Dampstung colt legs buck Dampstung is ingenious, now that I have a handle on it. At first I read it as "Durmstrang" from Harry Potter.
in awkward grace
to crazy rhythms
of bumping satchel books,
kick at invisible traces
along tree- tunnelled lanes I think tunnelled = tunneled
prevaricating I wonder if 'deceptively' would work better here? I appreciate the word choice, but it is out of synch with the rest of your diction.
solitary.

Trees and fields grow thin
draped in sad cobweb rags I love this image!
of rising river mists
muddy leaves lie in heavy drifts
still, dull
as the blood -matted fur
and empty green eyes
of the tortoiseshell cat
in the gutter
dead. I think perhaps you could pull 'dead' up into the preceding line, 'dead in the gutter' for the sake of your enjabment.

Thank you for the read.