Monday 12th August

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THIS IS ESSEX:
 
The picture in my memory is different to the one I see 
waking amongst the fields of Essex. Without thousands 
giving freely their good energy & support I turn to the 
kettle for encouragement & a glimmer of sympathetic empathy. 
In the silent kitchen of the morning after we empty suit cases, 
set washing machines in motion & put away the trappings of a 
travelling life & instruments of international wandering. 
Passports slip back beneath their stones like rock pool crabs &
flight cases return to unlit warehouse corners, legends stencilled 
on their sides concealed as the last truck pulls away. 
 
(K)

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