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When I was younger, I dreamt of when I didn’t have to sit on a bus for an age to get to the centre of something, when I could live there, in a place with sleep patterns like mine, where things happened. Now I’ve returned, that same bus journey is spent staring at everything, making the most of the landscape, not just rushing to reach the horizon. And now, returned, I’ve found that I like to sleep where the only sounds are the wind and the hourly church bells, maybe an owl, and not the insect buzz of cars, the sirens like mosquitoes, the screams and shouts. And that I like to sit on grass, near trees, and not have to keep my eyes wide for anything but the view. I like to pass an unknown but friendly face and smile and say hi and how’s it going and isn’t the weather nice? because it is. And I like to let myself be open to it all and not worry about everyone around taking me off-guard. Out here, the night is clear: crisp, but I can see the stars, every last one, all laid out. I like the city lights too, sometimes, in passing, never still. But when I think of a favourite colour, I think of beige: not the beige of the hallway in a suburban house, ready to sell, but the beige of the fields seamed together with hedgerows, worn like patches on a warm, well-loved coat wrapped around my shoulders, around the shoulders of my village, my childhood home. Now, in my centre, the centre of the country, of the countryside, I can breathe. And I will always crave fields and stars and peace. |
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i always look forward to reading yr poems! you have such a distinctive voice!
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