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JLM Morton19 October 2023

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Notes on enchantment

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Merrrie Imbolc dear friends. Throw open the windows, light a candle, wash in cold water! Poem by Seamus Heaney from The Spirit Level. The light, always the light ✨️

January re/readings 🤓📚
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#amreading

worship the source babes 🌀

Morning brush w the Longstone 🪨
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Runs around the field on the stroke of midnight it does 👀
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#imbolc incoming 🪨

Thanks to @joff_elphick for reminding me, it's 5 years since we made a piece together about the Severn (& w @oonaghd on synth and vocals 💙). Swipe left to hear a bit - the text will be in my next collection which I'm just doing the edits on. Out

Scarlet elf cups / Late Warning, a pome from the latest @poetrybrum 🍄 I love how these crimson bowls pop up in the winter woods 🍅
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#poetry #fungi #scarletelfcup

WILD

#nofilter

good writing weather ☁️

I’m not the first to say it but writing’s magic isn’t it? The feeling your way in the dark thing with your imagination – the great gift of our species – having no idea where you might go until you find yourself a few hou

Oof I've spent the day writing about complicated grief - isn't that what they call it? the kind that has yet to be fully 'integrated'. Wasn't what i set out to do today because I've been dreading this bit, but I did it. Started it anyway. In between

Snow swim! Feeling ALIIIIIVE ❄️🥶
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w icebabes @earthonherhands @louisetickleauthor

Up and away to May Hill, round it clockwise once for luck. Squeezing the last juice from the highdays 🦅 love these winter colours 🪶

Here's me ole mug and the moooon up at The Toots lit by the last sunset of 25 wishing yours a truly happy, hopeful new year. Thanks to you lot my feed is full of poets, artists, musicians, makers, singers, dancers and folk doing interesting things, s

December readings 📚 ✨️ 🤓
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#amreading

over on the stack, a little offering for your creative practice at the turning of the year 🌲
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#amwriting #writingcommunity #creativepractice

A very merrie Christmas to all ye lovely instafolk 🐕🎄

Tonight is the longest night - let's not be too hasty to get back to the light 🌚
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#yule #wintersolstice

Last reading of the year, in amazing company with so many talented poets and musicians 💓
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📸 @marasimpsonmusic 😘