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Timeline (1946 - )

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Original Language
English
Ploughing at Nightfall

Themes
  Fire
  Light
  Mountain
  Womb
 

 

Recommended Books

Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

The hill lights burn like a fuse.
The magpie flies the hedgerow
white, white, white.
The tractor roars down its beam,
the plough glowing.
And, pressing on the small door of the self,
the night's immense emptiness
comes falling in.

 

 

-- from Stepping Into Brilliant Air, by Colin Oliver

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