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Aditya Kakkar
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Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…

—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1
A Winter Apple by Don Paterson for Nora Chassler ​ Here, I got you one of those you like: those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small and sweeter than they’ve any right to be, as green as Eden, the red an afterthought as if there’d been an hour left in the season to paint them all, and where the brush had swept the snow-white fruit below is stained with pink as if your teeth had bled from biting it. It was hard enough to body itself forth with so few leaves to hide it from the frost without it burning fuel on working out where its skin stopped and its flesh began. All that touched it shook its heart. It was that or it was nothing. Take it in your pocket on your long Sunday walk to eat by the loch with that lone jackdaw only you can talk to. I make no great claims for this little thing but I promise only good will come of it.
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Barred Owl on a cold, rainy evening.
#wildlifephotography #birdphotography #owl
A Barred Owl stares at the camera through a line of trees on a dark, rainy evening.
December 1, 2024 at 3:08 PM