October 2019

When my father was alive

Sixty years on, the trainsstill run at the bottom of my garden. I return, expecting to seeuprooted rails, something for walkers,a crazed cycle path,but I hear the train, and I seethe track, though the meadows it ran throughhave been shaved…

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Yesnaby

Travelling back through the centuriespast standing stonesand hollow hungry mounds,we arrive at Yesnaby, where cliffs and castlesfall into the sea,  waves crash recklessly ineating away at what is unseen,giving us no warningthat soon we will be crashing toostruck down by a…

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