Into the Deep Woods

Into the Deep Woods

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Into the Deep Woods
Into the Deep Woods
Old Growth

Old Growth

Ignoring the wounds

James Roberts
Jan 11, 2024
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Dusk approaches. The hill is windless and quiet. Moorhens carefully crosshatch the surface of the pool wrinkling the inverted images of  squall-clouds that have been gathering for an hour. A faint curtain of rain closes across the mountains twenty miles away. I am sitting dazed after another week of hospital appointments, results and procedures. I want …

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