Familiar days are stored whole
in bottles. There's a wet morning
orchard in the dandelion wine;
a white spring distilled
in elderflower's clarity;
and a loving, late, sunburning
day of October in syrups
of rose hip and the beautiful
black sloes that stained the gin to rose.
--Gillian Clarke
excerpted from "Letter from a Far Country"
Oh. How lovely. Just the perfect way to end the day... thank you. Have a wonderful weekend, Allison..!
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