Juliet Wilson: COLINTON DELL, EDINBURGH

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The riverbanks profuse with flowers — hot pink rosebay willow herb, bright white umbellifers and too many yellow species to count.

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The wild carrot and cow parsley alive with insects, the thin vivid red of soldier beetles, the rigid black of flies that move their wings to reveal lemon yellow bodies, the tiny irridescent black beetles that gather in groups.

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A strange lack of birds, explained by the call of a sparrowhawk.

heat haze—

a dragonfly black

against the sky

by Juliet Wilson
Edinburgh, Scotland