The cow next door

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Cow sat idly all day. She was not waiting. She was not hoping. All would soon be over. Nothing would be happening.
She had on very little. The room was hot, windows were shut, the front door locked from within. The air everywhere around was a breathless fug. She puffed all day long. Smoke had [...]

Softly sang birds

Softly sang birds all about. Inside wood waved ferns in wafting breeze and they were among them, hand in hand, slowly making way. Up between trees glimpsed small puffs of clouds against greatly blue sky. Ahead they saw their small perfect place to lie. There they fell and lay, arms round each other. Tall ferns [...]

M’illumino, d’immenso

I leave my dreams to race towards the earth. I want to get there before it opens for business.
I’ll be the first in the queue to get the first free offer of light as it starts up another day.
To take the first of dawn.
As it is sweeping into the windswept Gulf of Bothnia. [...]