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actually its about love

By  Helen Acklam 2025

There is a cemetery on the side of the Garw Valley, part of the carboniferous South Wales coalfield. Above it is a mound covered with rocky outcrops. The gnarly rocks, each unique in shape and cragginess, speak of epic shifts, ancientness and ongoingness. Moving between rock and skin, I notice the lively world between; the critters, colours, smells.

The neither here-nor-there strange shaped gaps offer other spaces to occupy.

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