Oars pull through water with purpose but soon it’s simpler to lean back lift our faces to the sun and drift. London friends with alabaster faces savour exposure that ripens skin. Dragonfly wings flash iridescent jade on flowers clustered like clouds which have abandoned the sky to float as indolent as us. Poplars the colour of eucalypts lean over their reflections, fish splash at touchdown, birds of prey stare from air drift eyries, basso profundo frogs laugh at silent jokes. Castelnaud endures another century on the edge while wrapped round the…
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