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Saturday 9 December 2023

A fine place for a picnic

What is that lady doing

Lying on the grass

By the stream


The stream that burbles and flows over the uneven unsteady rocks; stones that later she would sit upon, bare feet in the water, her picture being taken, photographed laid bare beneath the arched-back stone bridge.


How did she get there

What is her name

Who is she with


There with he who luxuriates and lays in the dappled sunlight, before a scramble up the hillside, to pick the just-on ripe bilberries, a thirst for the first of she the city country girl.


Where is she going

She called goodbye to the children

And waved



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