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stillness and silence
in late evening is balm for
my soul’s ear and eyeii
low light affords mind
flight thru the hours of past days
passed and those to comeiii
and when the heartbeat
in my ears slows I hear the
mouse in my log store
Betwixt Lakeland & Edinburgh
My little garden studio is always given a reshuffle during the autumn / winter months, the better to accommodate the lighting of the log stove and avoid being toasted.
And I’ve been working on making the garden winter-ready this morning. It’s looking bare and angular. But there’s a mellowness too: shades of gold and red and orange. I’ve been glad of the company of a robin, and of the appearance of a couple of brave autumn crocuses …