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It can get like this...
I feed the cat, make some coffee and then put a duffle coat on over my pajamas to walk out in the half-light. Frost has formed vast fan-shaped patterns on the outhouse windows. The door is frozen and creaks as I go out.
There is no wind - only ground mist up to my waist, as I walk the path between the yew trees, past the pond, the gates to the stable block, past the eary shape of the ice house, and on down to the field gate.
An owl is flapping back from his night shift to roust again, field mice are busy in the compost heaps, some where in the still dark padock a pony snorts. A chill in the air is clearing my brain of the fog of early working.Somewhere out there a day is begining, people waking, babies need changing and children to be fed and I am involved with abstractions on a sheet of A4 that may come to nothing.
A milk tanker rattles along the lane somewhere and a cockrel begins to tell his first tale.
There are soft sounds from back at the house - sounds of getting up and kids discovering a new day - a new adventure. The sound of an adult, calling out their names.
I have to turn and go to face up to what other people expect, and leave my world in abaonce untill the rush is over.
The day light comming fast now.
All the mist and strangeness takes on recognisable forms and I walk back - back into a real enough world where I can eat before I go and lift a pen once more.
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Posted by Triforium on 2007-10-23 07:21:57 | Rating: | Views: 97
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I love the descriptiveness of this! Okay, I don't think that's a word!LOL! Anyway, it's beautiful.
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Posted by Rajah1116
on 2007-10-23 07:29:00
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You've done it again Trif. This seems like an additional opening to your previous post and both together still seem like the foundations of a good story. You have a talent there and its nice to see you bringing it out.
As Rajah said, it is very descriptive and I could see and feel all you were telling. Looking forward to reading more perhaps? :)
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Posted by scotslad60
on 2007-10-24 06:13:08
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Love the imagery here. It's like I'm really there with the author. Great stuff.
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Posted by SubTomato
on 2007-10-26 04:44:09
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Very expressive, thank you so much sweetie
xo
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Posted by kentlass
on 2007-10-29 10:16:26
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