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From ULR
Issue 7 – Environment
Water Museum
Misty childhood mornings, cold breath, and a haunting, fragile swan's bride reveal deeply preserved memories
June 15, 2022
You stockpile umbrellas and radiators, a heap of mad grins
reminding you of so many school mornings
with fog pearls, breath pearls, wetting your regulation scarf
as you walk from the station
on small, red bricks, the outside trim
of a pink cement pavement
past ice-sheaths of reeds round a swan’s nest.
And the swan’s bride, a tissue ballerina, haunting the mist.
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PART OF A COLLECTIONWater Museum and 6 other poems
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Ruth Padel
Ruth Sophia Padel FRSL FZS is a British poet, novelist and non-fiction author, in whose work “the journey is the stepping stone to lyrical reflections on the human condition”. She is known for her poetic explorations of migration, and of science; also for her involvement in music, wildlife conservation, and Greece, ancient and modern. She is Trustee for conservation charity New Networks for Nature and has served on the board of the Zoological Society of London. In 2013 she joined King’s College London, where she is Professor of Poetry.