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A Bird to Soar by Ellen Forkin

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My room, an island

Windowless and blue and quiet

The world outwith an endless ocean

Unpredictable, ever-changing, deep

My mind, the sky

Alive with colour and sunlight and oxygen

Cloud thoughts gleam and gather

Until I create drawings—stories—poetry

These are the birds

I send soaring

Out beyond

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Ellen Forkin is a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in Orkney, Scotland.

www.ellenforkin.co.uk

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