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In the corridor


Bold colours in the open book
opening on fields, hills, farms;
not much text.
A band of children, wading
through reeds and corn swathes,
tree climbing, brook trawling,
and a jar of stickle-backs
pricking bubbles, bubbles,
a strand of weed:

the door to the lounge suddenly
opened, and the massive draft
opened onto me–
so it was escape back to bed,
the safe house, cloth-eared and quiet.
I press escape now and
nothing happens.