Feeling lost on a foggy morning
by Simon Ingram from Environment | The Guardian on (#17RPS)
Nene Valley, Cambridgeshire Unusually, there's water underfoot, and the water in the air steals any remaining familiarity
The rain starts to fall in the early dark, and it continues all day. It's sudden and fierce. The valley seems caught out. Water appears everywhere. The river bloats, quickens, turns brown. In the fields, filthy water bleeds up from the ground. And then, the rain stops.
For two days, the water just sits, the sky appearing untidily in the ground where it shouldn't. It looks up at itself from a big, mucky wound in the field.
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