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/ fields of wheat / canals & drains / tarmac roads /

In summer the sky is blue & lifted high

a shimmering blue silence from which

there is no hiding place

(save) beneath the surface of the land.

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he came back for the taste of her

like he was passing through the sky

to go somewhere and do something

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In autumn the sky is most times white.

A ragged, dirty white.

And you wonder how this could be the same sky but it is.

The earth turns thick & hard beneath it.

Winds rip through the clouds and

slashes of light

run across the fields and vanish over the horizon and leave

the land as heavy as before.

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The colours of the earth change. Westry

Fields & ditches clog with leaves. Whittlesey

Rivers swell. Pondersbridge

Forty Foot Bridge

Ticks Moor

West Moor

Ten Mile Bank

Salter’s Lode

Outwell

Friday Bridge

If you had stayed at home it

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