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She is a creature made for velvet cushions, shipwrecked on a balcony of damp disdain

By Sarah Hardacre 2025

Paper collage: magazine page, archive photocopy of Falinge Flats, Waterhouse Street, Rochdale (18th April 1979), G.F. Smith Peregrina Majestic Gardners Green 290gsm paper.

Photo 2026 04 09 09 05 09 1783690451 Sarah Hardacre

Reflections In An Emerald Eye

But really there is no ideal man then?

Oh well, as the poet once said, 'is all that we think or seem but a dream within a dream…?

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