Friday, 19 April 2013

Being a Demi-God.

There’s a tract of hedgerow at the near end of Church Lane that hasn’t been trimmed for some years, no doubt because the verge and ditch on the lane side are unusually wide at that point. It’s turning wild and unkempt, and I thought tonight that there must be thousands of little lives being lived out among it, unseen and unheard by my inadequate human eyes and ears. No doubt they’re all aware of me, though, because I’m the big, unfamiliar thing that makes a lot of noise when it walks. I wonder whether they know how to find Polaris by using the Big Dipper as a guide, as I do.

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