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night’s tobacco tang
wreathing about the lamp posts
a stench of leaf mulch
koi in the black pond
backs bright like the maple trees
as wind rushes through
dew comes with a snap
it is harder to cast off
my blanket cocoon
time to light the fire
at the window a quick squall
raps against the pane
Clare Mulley is a Yorkshire-born writer and teacher, and is currently Poet in Residence at the Battlefields Trust and a columnist for The Skinny Magazine. An ex Tower poet recently shortlisted for Young Poet Laureate for London, she has since been Poet in Residence at StAnza Festival, taught at the Scottish Creative Writing Centre and been commissioned by the Tate, along with other young female poets, to respond to the works of Emin and Bacon. Clare is a Nature nut with a love of storytelling, and is delighted to have found a writing group as bonkers as she is.
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