The Rope

~ mungrisdalewriters

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60m of blue climbing rope
Uncoiled on grass under crag
It must be ready to pay out freely

Within its strands the memories
Of every previous winding up
And knot

The rope pays out
Freely
We climb

Julie Carter

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