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@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:35 AM

For @emteepoetry.bsky.social Emily and her marvellous #primptcombo #Winged a sonnet from my forthcoming collection "Miner Wattas":

Southern Iron Blue (a rare mayfly found in Cawthorne Dike)

this flat hardness, far from death and plunder.
I came from the flow Under into flow
Above.
I scraped hardnesses for food in the Under.
In the Above I have no mouth. Enough!

Avoiding massive mouths I rise in light.
I find my wings. My feet taste surfaces.
I clasp her from below. Both of us in flight.
She drops to the Under, then releases

our bairns, exhausted, collapses, flow takes her.
I starve to death, so how am I speaking now?
I am one of many voices of the river,
preserved. I do not know the why or how.

Know me in the riffles whose water changes
ever different ripples and exchanges.

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