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Shooting in the Dark
Embrace the dark, find the light?
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Fleet
The Objectness of memory
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Verb
The green blade riseth like a rapidly inflating bouncy castle.
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Sunday service
A wisteria-wrapped memory of kites over a chalk field.
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Buzzard
Three buzzards, then four, then five, were planing across the coeruleum sky, half-open books channeling upwards, closing shut to drop down, all the…
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Peregrine
Now that it is March I cycle over to the downs on weekend mornings to spend a few minutes peering over the cliff, watching for peregrines.
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Koeeoaddi
A misty morning wonder and ponder through the woods with The Incredible String Band, William Blake and a boisterous wren.
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Loss
I have been reading Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald. It is a collection of nature essays exploring the relationship between humans and the natural…
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