Yachts in Winter Perched on salt desert precarious pillars of stinging reflections each white-wrapped stylite creaks, sighing and lurching through wind-whipping penance. Katherine Spadaro Rain in the City Rain in the city washes, weeps, atones: hard edges softened, screaming sounds muted; dark dust dissolved, dim fumes diluted. Strangers huddling, sheltering, smiling; stone, water, flesh: miracles melding. Katherine Spadaro Golden Syrup Pudding Some things cannot be rushed. Golden syrup cannot be ordered, cajoled, shoved out of a spoon. Thesepeoplewillbehereinanhourandthispuddingtakesthatlongtocook! It starts a slow thread, twisting and beading. Clusters of amber majestically descend… Cansomeonetidyupinthereandcheckthebathroomandhaveyoustartedthebarbecue?…
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Katherine Spadaro: Yachts in Winter, Rain in the City, Golden Syrup Pudding, I hope that God will help me, Mongolian Patchwork and Seagull
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