Foxed Penguins ...

I've taken to buying vintage Penguins - 

I seek them out in secondhand bookshops - 

I prefer the Penguins foxed, with thin yellowed pages - 

They evoke the shades of their readers. 

Sometimes there's a name, a signature or date - 

There's a mark of a forgotten summer's reading -

There's a scent of a hidden country - 

I think of those shades when I turn the pages - 

They're given voices by the words we're reading - 

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Saturday 28 April 2018

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset