October 2020

The corona man

When we lived in Lakenham,which had just avoided the bombs,the corona man came week by week, with his fizzy crate,his Dandelion and Burdockand his sustainable, esoteric bottles He did not keep his distanceand he did not wear a mask:there may…

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Young birds

Light flashes in the hedgeas young birdsfree from the fieldstaste the edges of their new world then come to feed from our fingers:sunlight pierces their wingsand the puzzle of leaves and branchesas we watch, remembering Columbathe holy dove and the flames…

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Missing our second home

Although I have many doubts about the Government’s approach to Covid, since the outbreak started I have avoided travelling to my second home in Scotland. This is partly because I don’t have a second home in Scotland, but there is…

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