Something that came early this morning.
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Doing things when you are not yourself, not alone but lost, maybe for a couple, a group of people, a tribe or nation...
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Yesterday the sea stayed the same colour all day.
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For those of us who sometimes (for whatever reason) have trouble sleeping.
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The hill is tossing high, frail wisps of
rosy cloud to glide in steady gale
along a turquoise sky, around, above the
perpendicular and slightly askew columns,
above the triangular gap
between crown and crag…

—Tessa Ransford, “August 3rd”
published in Shadows from the Greater Hill (Ramsay Head Press, 1987)

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/august-3rd/

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This mysterious piece asked to be written.
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A slightly feverish state.
Probably been watching too many episodes of Dickinson on Apple TV!
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Sometimes it is not easy to 'open up' to another person.
The Somerset levels are a beautiful, haunted area going down towards the sea of wet-lands, meadows and moor curling around and lying west of Glastonbury -some say the Isle of Avalon.
Barrow is an ancient stone structure partially/wholly covered with earth.
Tump can be a small mound or bushy clump.
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