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Gerrie Fellows
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Gerrie Fellows

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Shadow  Net

Shadow net on a pebble-dashed wall
in sweet risen light
Children scramble and yell
on the climbing frame
jumble jet and motorway
catch with a flick
the world in the net of game

The bulbs nudge her shoulder
windblown, luminous  Branch
blue arabesques on the photographic
plate the sun has made the wall
lulled in the late afternoon
woman and magnolia
children  a game branching
into space  car crashes  magic

Let go, they gesture  Touch
the sun through the trellis  vibrant
shocking patches of scarlet teeshirt
uncajoled  unordered  play
flowering around us

© Gerrie Fellows
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