In Conversation With Birds

In Conversation With Birds

Nature & Cure

On endings.

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Mar 30, 2026
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Where my tower block once existed in brutalist simplicity, was now a milkshake conglomerate building—built in a night, it had seemed to me, the unobservant. The concrete walls oozed with stale milk, poured over the Betfred below. The birds fed on gummed flies and flew back with heavy bellies.

I sit on a tree stump; the Jogger had died. Opposite, The Brea…

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