28 May 2016
Song of the Studley Needle Girls
(Music: TRAD ‘My Johnny Was a Shoemaker’)
Verse 1
Keep straightening the needles, girls, and clear the hammer marks
Keep straightening the needles, girls, and think of your sweethearts…
30 May 2016
I am searching for a word
for that which Earth exhales
through snapped hedgerows
and grasses cut through spring…
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