salt water #920131

A collection of poems written over many years. The focus shifts from nature, to mythology, to travel, to growing up and growing old, each poem something like an island in an unknowable salt water ocean.

For ours is a water world. Our planet's surface is 71% ocean, and we live our lives on islands in that great sea. Our planet should be called Ocean, not Earth. Our planet should be called Salt Water.

Salt water is mildly antiseptic and can be used to help clean and heal wounds. Salts and water are essential to our bodies' functioning. Taking a small amount of salt water can have health benefits, but drinking too much is dangerous. Drinking salt water will make you lose more water than you gain. Consume salt water slowly and carefully if you must.
 
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Walking the Himalaya
Unearthed
The Boy Who Climbed Trees
Blackberrying
Where The Water Rises
When We Were Giants
A Clock's First Tick
Coalmining
Counting All The Bricks In Manchester
Replanting The Great Caledonian Forest
Autumnal
In the Peak Forest
Midwinter's Day
Red Kite
A Buzzard, on Landing on Carrion
Safari Snaps
Standing Stones
The Botany Of The British Isles
Ephemeroptera
Crowhaunted
Sleeps Beneath The Streets
Dreadnought
Labbeastyrinth
Calliope On The Street Corner
Orpheus In The Underpass
Mid-Atlantic Depressions
Words Fail
The Bloody Coup
A Sudden Distance
A Bright Wind