John Williams and Julian Bream. Hokusai. A day in the Life.<\/p>\n
T.S. Eliot. Bach and Britten’s Requiem. Mozart Piano Concerti – especially 20.<\/p>\n
The things I return to. Crutches when I feel weak, tired. Or low. Or all three.<\/p>\n
And Bessie Bighead. Bessie always reminds me of the precarious balances. Happy and sad. Alive and not.<\/p>\n
Alone until she dies, Bessie Bighead, hired help, born in the workhouse, smelling of the cowshed, snores bass and gruff on a couch of straw in a loft in Salt Lake Farm and picks a posy of daisies in Sunday Meadow to put on the grave of Gomer Owen who kissed her once by the pig-sty when she wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t looking and never kissed her again although she was looking all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dylan Thomas,
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