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"Mid-way between Flaxpool and Upcott"
Mid-way between Flaxpool and Upcott
where three elms leap from a low hill into the sky
and the first line of thorn trees crest the Quantocks
my eyes turn outward, away from parting,
forward to another week. It is a lonely road.
The motor plays a quiet drone chant, set below
a plaintive scratch of hedgerows tracing
black inked needles over a moving page.
John Bailey
Somerset, January 2001
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