Sitting alone in bed I stare out to the fallow meadow and trees beyond my open window. The fields further behind stack up in layers and are topped with a horizon along which trees are clumped in a caterpillar line. For a time my gaze is soft, lost even, but I am brought round by the muscular, rhythmic charge of a train through the valley below. I cannot…
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