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Old Ground by Tracey Scott-Townsend

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A psycho-geography walk through memories of time an place.

Tracey Scott‐Townsend
jumps through history and uses magical realism to make her walk seem almost dreamlike, written as myth.
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Poppies bow by the locked gate, forget-me-nots hide in the long grass. Beyond the fence, candle-flowers flare on a horse-chestnut. The gold of a dripping Laburnum shines between maple leaves.

The sky – intense blue.


Along the banks of the drain adjacent to the fenced-in wilderness, tall grasses swing and sigh, heads heavy with seeds. May blossom is whiter for its contrast with viridian shadows. Yellow-green-crowned beeches stand waist-deep in Queen Anne’s lace – umbrella-clusters frothing white. Weeping willows’ herringboned trunks arc the drain, trailing long-leafed tears.


​A gaping hole; black-mouthed in ridged bark.

 
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