"Grandpa!" the child calls out, and on his face expectation which I can and will fulfil. I am, to him, so much more than the man I know...

"Grandpa!" the child calls out, and on his face...

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A little explanation for what follows: Craig-y-Don is the name of the house my grandfather owned at the top end of the Downs in...

A little explanation for what follows: ...

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So much I didn't ask for! A sack suspended from a tree into which the gods have lobbed their birthday presents, addressed to me, and...

So much I didn't ask for! A sack suspended...

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I awoke to see the sun today. It shone in through the walls of the room where we lay. It cast its light across our bed and bathed us in...

I awoke to see the sun today. It shone in...

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Apples are falling from my tree; small, green and months before their time. I kick them aside with my feet, Those little...

Apples are falling from my tree; small, green...

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Blind-man's-bluff is the game I'm at; groping in the dark. I can picture the room; picture the faces; I think I know where I am, but......

Blind-man's-bluff is the game I'm at; groping...

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What will become of him - the nurses around him, coaxing and cajoling, and a procession of specialists in making breathing easier? Is...

What will become of him - the nurses around...

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We waited in the Surgical Decision Unit, a small, quiet community of people in pain. Need leaked from our glances, filling the corners of...

We waited in the Surgical Decision Unit, a...

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You stood in the open door and your smile called my eyes. I saw surrender in your lips, but it was I became the prisoner when our...

You stood in the open door and your smile...

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There were dragons in the sky that night, with tongues of flame that licked away the day and fiery breath that smudged the air...

There were dragons in the sky that...

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Yes - I've been to France, and eating fruits de mer... The oysters on the plate, their shells wrinkled, gnarled and impregnable,...

Yes - I've been to France, and eating fruits de...

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The tide was out. On the shore below the layered, crumbling cliff where the fulmars rattle, raise their chicks and make stiff-winged...

The tide was out. On the shore below the...

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How was I to know that when time ran out between my fingers into a heap of lost moments on the floor, you'd come by and kick it with your...

How was I to know that when time ran out...

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Held hot in the grasp of the picture she painted, He wrestled through tangled colours And shapes, gasping to breathe But drowning...

Held hot in the grasp of the picture she...

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Bright the wings in your eyes when over the depths we fly. There's sunlight in their feathers and rainbows when they soar; Their...

Bright the wings in your eyes when over the...

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Why didn't I see the storm that came and sank my boat? Why didn't I see those clouds blackening out the sun? Nor hear the winds that...

Why didn't I see the storm that came and sank...

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Small, shrunken by age, and her paper-skin face that every night was crumpled into a ball and thrown away and every morning rescued from...

Small, shrunken by age, and her paper-skin face...

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I looked for you in the wood but all I found were thornes. I looked for you in the stream but all I found were stones. I looked for...

I looked for you in the wood but all I found...

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If you were a book, I'd read you from cover to cover. If you were a river, I'd explore every mile of your course. If you were an...

If you were a book, I'd read you from cover to...

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Virgin white but flustered by a nosey bee, the apple blossom blushes pink, and around her dance the leaves which will remain long after...

Virgin white but flustered by a nosey bee, the...

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That tree whose bough we swung beneath when sweetnesses surrounded us, and every sweet was fresh as dew and every taste entirely new; the...

That tree whose bough we swung beneath when...

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The door was ajar and pushing it I saw a room with flowers and sunlight in the windows and then you turned and smiled with jewels in your...

The door was ajar and pushing it I saw a room...

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There was never so gentle a blizzard as the storm of blossom petals that softly swirled about my head and kissed the daffodils, the grass...

There was never so gentle a blizzard as the...

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I too can fly like you, Bird, I too can soar - my feet here on the ground, my body glued to earth. But Bird, the "I" inside my...

I too can fly like you, Bird, I too can soar...

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It is a world of foaming tumult out there on the shouting chaos of the sea. Are the waves tormented by the gale which blasts the...

It is a world of foaming tumult out there on...

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