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Thank You, Fog

June 13, 2026December 7, 2018 by JosieHolford

There’s the fog of war and there’s the poetry of fog. A recent heavy mist  in my patch of the mid-Hudson valley brought fog and poetry to mind. Not the yellow fog of an old-time London peasouper particular but rather the mysterious wreathing whiteness of an English mist in a damp December countryside – the … Read more

Categories Poetry, RattleBag and Rhubarb Tags Christmas, fog, poetry, Sonia Orwell, W.H.Auden 10 Comments

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