here could be
a garden again
sylvan lillies and tigers 
fearful shadows
by the climbing frame

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Image: Sorpresa! by Henri Rousseau c. 1891, c/- Wikimedia Commons.

Music this morning, something uplifting featuring my favourite mezzo Cecillia Bartoli. Here’s Agostino Steffani (no relation to Gwen) with Stabat Mater (Youtube)