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Friday 22 December 2023

Sussex Downs

So many times have I wandered

And now

Sat here, I listen to the soft piano


The pianist adrift

A wake up of wistful, wispy steps

Out and on and through the meadow


Turn slowly, turn over the leaves of tattered paper

The scores of crumpled notes, taken dutifully

Out of the washing basket


Hung there, on the line, in the morning sunshine

With Offenbach

From Life is Beautiful


Knowing that elsewhere

Rivers flow in their own defiance of gravity

Up and down the undulating lawns



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