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StorySudden Snow Rhiannonw1311 years 10 months ago

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Cherry

Netherfields

Four sails of the seas To navigate a dry-dock vessel, Square and stationary To turn the air to Dutch advantage. But at last the dyke has burst: derelict Stands the house of industry;
Cherry

Girders

Skeletal children born of industrial flame, Called into being to serve the outgoing ships, Before the Navy came to service the Firth. The frightening rush of Dreadnaughts
Cherry

Maypole

Centre of the village, focus of historic fears, Children dance to the old songs, dark rhythms in their blood Unconsciously following the final rite in innocent passage,

Stack, Foinaven, Arkle

Stack, footstool of Thor’s voice, Tremble the earth before the sky’s blood So tender to melt the earth, Foisted and fostering, Awaiting grace on the fall of summer,

The Life and Times of a Halberd

Cut from the oak, in dying it lives again. Swishing harvest fields austerely as a judge, Beheading the still and silent grain, The axe come to call on Anne Boleyn.

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