Buying the third volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! ...

I unwound my keffiyeh - 

I was wearing my antiquarian tweed - 

I'd turned the pages of a foxed Freya Stark - 

Invisible Naval Officers had brushed past me - 

I gazed at a county map showing lost villages - 

Old words stirred in reefs of memoirs - 

The silverback took my note - 

Osbert Sitwell he growled - 

There's not much profit there - 

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Tuesday 5 June 2018

Salisbury