VALENTYNE
only you bring such gifts, (and presence):
a curlew caller, (I’m here, I hear),
and stone-age axe, (what reach you have)
a flint heart splint from rock sparks flame to fire
I clasp it as I write
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VALENTYNE
only you bring such gifts, (and presence):
a curlew caller, (I’m here, I hear),
and stone-age axe, (what reach you have)
a flint heart splint from rock sparks flame to fire
I clasp it as I write
Contents
Valentyne
LARK & MERLIN
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from FIENDS FELL JOURNALS
Prologue
‘water skips…’
‘Edge of displaced echoes…’
1 June 2003
Midsummer
Late Start
16 August
Reading Creeley’s ‘Histoire de Florida’
2 September
Boogie-woogie
Anabatic
6 November
‘an alert kestrel…’
‘a pitched raven takes aloft…’
New Year’s Day
23 January 2004
5 February
‘a gust of sun…’
8 February
9 February
11 February
V
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17
2 1
2 7
2 8
2 9
3 0
31
3 2
33
34
35
36
37
38
4 0
41
4 2
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