The Sky is Falling
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 at 10:31PM
Velvet Snoutingdingle in Fenlands, butterflies, lockdown, pandemic

The sky is falling. In these cloudless haze-free lockdown days, little blue butterflies slide past, like paint-chips of broken sky, swirling this way and that. Orange tips are like fragments of cloud, their edges still burning. Commas are smouldering embers. Peacocks and tortoiseshells suggest tiny cog-wheels and mechanisms falling from the sphere of heaven and yellow brimstones float like broken peices of sun.

The sky is falling.

 

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