Trafika Europe 1 - Northern Idyll

Hawthorn

more knobbles and angles than thorns all the signs of suffering chapped skin gnarled joints hawless twigs contorted limbs

would you rather be edging a field of contented cows layered and pinned but rooted in rich deep soil

or is life here worth enduring the minch’s merciless gales?

backed against the crag

braced for storms

holding to a principle that felt like freedom in your seedling days dying for it now

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