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Wilderness 2001, 2021

by Chris Armstrong

You see

a land wraithed in smoke and the stink of death

You feel

man's determination dulled by desperation and

the hollow, guilty hope that the creeping fate might end

at a neighbour's door.

You cannot farm in the present

At least not in Wales.

The hills were silent memorials to herds brought low,

Uncropped: a tragedy of gr...

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