The English Garden

Fall & Rise

Katherine Swift notes how they symbolise both remembrance and regeneration

Standing in the lane that leads down to the house, my breath visible in the chilly air, there’s a haunting disconnect, a cognitive dissonance you might say, between my internal and external landscapes: a vivid memory of red poppies and midsummer heat and light in this autumnal landscape of

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