• Ways Of Seeing

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    The poet Ian McMillan is very fond of early morning strolls, and often posts intriguing snippets on Twitter, of the things he observes while out walking. Reading these tweets, you get the impression that the world has altered ever so slightly. Snails slither towards discarded beer cans, eagerly anticipating a party that is still days

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  • We Prowled The Taiga

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    We prowled the Taiga, a ghostly light, green and ephemeral dancing across the sky. Beautiful. Haunting us. Like a howl at the moon. And with it, the air changed as the light shifted something. We feel it, the tingle of it. A little snap as it twitches through our spines. Perhaps it is also this

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  • Dog Collar

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    My removal was a final act of tenderness. Moments before, eye to eye, she made the decision. Fidelity, it turns out,takes many forms. She stroked his head and they inhaled together. But when she breathed again, hers was the only breath, and she suffocated it with a shudder of tears. From that moment I lay

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  • Shape Shifter

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    SHAPE SHIFTER For Jo Bell As a child, you did not understand how I could also be a solid. That in winter, you could hold in your hand an ice cold shard. You tried to remember me in summer, how I had flowed then like a river, sunlight glancing off the surface as you swam

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  • Julia’s Garden

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    They served her notice. In three days they would come to clear it away. It was dangerous, they said. A public nuisance, they said. People could trip and fall, they said. It had to go. More than once they said that. But she had watched them, these hapless pedestrians. Ambling down the street, minding their

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