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on flight
I stopped by the lip of the citywhere the lines to London curl southbreathed in the spacefelt the frost in my throatby the derelict sitemore fenced-off car parking than I imaginedexpanse of redundant concretesplit by grasses at its seamsreflecting the January Sun’s warmthenough to creat sufficient turbulanceto lift the buzzardsthey spiralled upwards into the bluethen →
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on time
if you get up earlyduring these short daysget out, walk towards the eaststand still, watch the bright light growfrom deep blue, so blue its almost blackto steel greywatch the horizon burnturn, look up at the highest pointstudy the golden light edging downthe church steeplethe coniferthe pyloncity hall’s clock toweryou’ll feel the Earth spinningtaking you into →
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on light
tune into new daySun tweaks its colour settingsbirdsong audible ~ n.b. Without the dampening affect of full foliage the morning is a pretty noisy time of day, particularly now that there is no lockdown in England and traffic on the bypass and into the city centre is increasingly heavy. ~ CLP 12/01/2022 →
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on light
compared with the Suneverything becomes grey-scalewithout perspective ~ n.b. It has been a challenging few days, putting fingers to the keyboard as impossible as joining like poles of two magnets. The ‘must post’ became ‘can’t post’. Now, a shift. Was it the sunlight? Was it the experience of movement in daytime? Was it enjoying catching →
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magicians
startling trilling songa pair of wrens exchanging rapidly delivered melodiesthe first on buddleja behind the old brick wallfilling the levelled yard with songopposite the old wharf-side warehousesits opposite sat bowing the tip of the lone fircalling up the Sun from behind the woodclumped along the ridgewhere tonight the calls of owls will conjure up the →
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on darkness
this is the limitsolar orbit continueswe move toward light ~ n.b. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it! Something to celebrate brothers and sisters. n.b. This deal does not apply to dwellers in the southern hemisphere. ~ CLP 21/12/2021 →
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