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\"\"<\/h3>\n

Medlock<\/strong><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

She sails her beech-mast from the woods
\nto Cairo Mill, burrows into darkness
\nunder Sun Hill,
\nresurfaces to rock
\nthe cemetery in the crook
\nof an oxbow.<\/p>\n

Winter floods stirred her from her bed \u2013
\nshe turned
\ngrave-robber, coal-hauler.
\nRan underground.
\nShe\u2019s the night-sweat
\nlocked in the stadium\u2019s cellar.<\/p>\n

You walk between feverfew and glib blossom
\nfretting about the fragile branches
\nof your sister\u2019s lungs.
\nOn the other bank
\nsomeone slams their door
\non a yell.
\nHome has its own thorns and hemlock.<\/p>\n

The red river coughs up bottles, cans, dead
\ntoys. She must swallow
\nevery drain in Failsworth.<\/p>\n

Rotten walls, prehistoric with horsetails
\nand bird\u2019s nest fern. Yellow fever of charlock,
\nwater clotting on draggled plastic.<\/p>\n

Midstream, a dirty silver shadow
\nhangs
\nby the beat of its fins.
\nFlank dappled garnet, onyx,
\nflash \u2013<\/p>\n

A wren\u2019s alarm-cry.
\nThat torn-off mask on a willow branch.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Flower that Breaks Rocks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He introduced his daughters to Ben Nevis.
\n\u2018You take the bearing. Line up the arrow,\u2019<\/p>\n

pointing to Moonlight Gully Buttress,
\nMinus One Gully. We didn\u2019t care<\/p>\n

until Dad found us a saxifrage. Its blooms
\nwere spokes of the North Star.<\/p>\n

\u2018Saxifraga<\/em> means rock-breaker.<\/em>\u2019
\nNivalis<\/em>: snow-saxifrage.<\/p>\n

Dainty Alpinist, chinking her roots into fissures
\nand fractures, like crampons in toeholds.<\/p>\n

But I see now what he could only glimpse.
\nThat she and the other Alpines \u2013 roseroots<\/p>\n

and pearlworts \u2013 are scrambling skywards
\nuntil all that remains for them is cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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