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  November 2022     1 year ago

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The Road North

THE ROAD NORTH

I’ve not been here before and won’t stay.
The track winds north through the mountains
and I want to press on in the sunshine.
Not sure where I’ll stay, doesn’t much matter
as at last I’m beginning to see
patches of snow round...

– by David Graham-Cook

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THIRST

THIRST

It would be his last day,
and talking
had yielded already
to nods and gestures.

Simple requests
confused him,
even single words
were opaque.

The failure
of understanding
was dissolving
the room where he lay.

As dusk...

– by David Graham-Cook

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