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Warm Up

Think of an interesting setting for a piece of writing – automatic writing for five minutes on trying to escape from this place

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Keeping Warm

By Aoife Mannix

Summer has ended

with sizzling lightning

stark against the window.

Cymbal of thunder

followed by silence

as the storm holds its breath

before the gasp of rain

roaring into gutters

on to parched earth

in the shock of drought.

Military planes fly through

the low, murky clouds

of another question mark

as we float in our bubble

of Texas hold ‘em

and the songs of gangsters.

It is hard to breathe

September’s sudden coolness.

There was that one afternoon

we walked along the river

searching for a boat

with the sand between our toes.

And looking through a window

at children playing in a garden.

They say winter

will be nuclear and cold.

For Sale signs

hanging over every refusal

to admit goodbye.

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Winter is a photographic series by German artist Uwe Langmann that depicts sweeping topographies blanketed by clean, white expanses of snow.

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