No 3 from Uses for the Thames

Feather!" cried the Sheep ...
Lewis Carroll, ‘Through the Looking-Glass’

The test was to dip
the needles into the dark
of the swallowing mirror

and by pulling to row
the weight of your own small self
through the silvery jam of its surface

trailing behind in your passing
your very own tale, knitted
extempore from light

and then to lift them,
feathered, ready for flight.
Tideway extracts

Salvage
Silvertown
Public Records Office
Last Frost Fair
No 3 From Uses for the Thames
Surgeon
St. Mary Overie

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