In the cellar
2025 · I

Common Ground
Neither apple nor pear, but a third thing.
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Cider is for those the years have caught up with. Tell us true.
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Come back when the years have caught up. The ravens will keep your place.

Texel salt, Earl Grey, and a long farewell.
From Texel came the Bramley, bitter and salt-bitten; from an unknown tree, an apple neither wholly sweet nor wholly sour. Oak held them, and through the wood walked a ghost of Earl Grey — dry, gold, and clean on the tongue, with a sour bite at the edge and a finish that would not release its hold. Full the apple, long the farewell. The breeze has passed; the glass is empty.