Poems

David Prescott-Steed: ‘Associative Logic’

Associative Logic No. 1 There are only four or five species of birds, three of which are variants of the extended seagull family, that inhabit this region of the cliff-face. This is in large part due to the wind that beats its airborne salt particles against the perpendicular landscape with serious velocity. Only since the invention of wearable binoculars have I found myself able to stand at lands end and greet the sea with open arms for more than a minute without succumbing to cascades of crystalline tears caused not by the speechless sentiments that occasionally I have felt towards…

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