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A trug of frozen apples, hard as
Quartz pebbles, catch the light
Crystal-coated, wondrous, paled
Palm-sized apple plunder
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The orchard apples drop to grass
Are gathered up by tub and carted
To the freezer, frozen up, hauled out
To defrost, squash, ferment
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First light halos the demi-johns
On the dining table. Tints of
Translucent yellow, tones of
Red from rose to ruby
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Another resurrection
Of an ordinary day the light
Ascending through the morning
Colour gradient
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Malcontent to find myself
Awake so early, until
I draw the old velvet curtains
On this panoramic anomaly
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The valley is flooded with mist
The moors appear as a series
Of Caribbean pirate islands
Not where I expected to wake
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This view opens my frown, it
Nudges acknowledgement, I am
Laughing at myself, at my quick
Mood-skip
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My decision is to make coffee
And sit, watching the colours
Change, outside, the pink
Underbelly of mackerel cloud
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Somewhere in the fridge is a tin
Of coffee. This week we are drinking
Vietnamese Weasel. I picture the sacks
Of beans on the quayside in a monsoon wind
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Maybe this started as a practical joke
But whoever ground up the beans from
The weasel’s poo was on to a good thing
Although the flavour in my cup is synthesised
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