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Mark Goodwin: Mad Vandal’s Dry April Ramble
Teach rotting five-bar gates to walk; to pulltheir broken plank-bones from long grass-strands. Thump the compactedground of paths with blistered balls of bare feet. Cut wrinkled fertiliser bags, foundin crisp ditch-bottoms, into strips to dressthe desiccated carcass of a badger asan angel of the dry daze. Claw flints with bleeding fingernails to proveblood’s runnier thanContinue reading “Mark Goodwin: Mad Vandal’s Dry April Ramble”
Emma Filtness: Extract from Spirit Bear
III Wrapped in home-spun wool dyed king bolete yellow, I lift the curtain and enter the damp quiet of the under-canopy, seeking the medicine of bark and root. I trail fingertips over rips in the hemlock’s tree-skin at head-height. Warily, I move on to the gnarled majesty of a mature yew. Startled by the air-snapContinue reading “Emma Filtness: Extract from Spirit Bear”
