You beach your beautyon the back of geo-magnetic storms. Spellbinding as pulsating northern lights,you offered songs to the nightbut were drawn by siren stars, lured off course and hurledthrough waves of coronal mass ejection,fought hard to correct your navigation. You collided with the shoreand now you lie, exposedto the cosmos, foamy flukes glinting in starlight,your […]
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Spellbound
Spell- bound by northern lights, I sigh like a whale stranded in the middle of a solar storm, muddled by Earth’s magnetic field. Separated for so long from the human pod, I (circum) navigate (relation) ships, until I flounder in shallow water, listening for my next breath. Kim M. Russell, 2017 […]
Our First Glimpse of the Aurora Borealis
When we first moved up to the North Norfolk coast, when Ellen was eleven going on twelve, we were amazed not only by the wide Norfolk landscapes and gorgeous sunsets, but also by the immense night skies. We had never seen so many stars or been able to identify constellations – in London there was […]
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