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Finding-Down Eggs

Sometimes it is just words, words that seem to float about in my head during my dreams. They are mostly said inside my head, a spoken thought, so to speak. Finding-down eggs was one of them. And it definitely wasn’t referring to the act of coming upon the eggs, ‘finding-down’ were a kind of egg. What kind of egg I cannot say. So evocative, so full of richness. I love this part of me, it is so free of rigidity, of fear, of fear of judgement. I wish I could remember more, but it is quite a thing to wake in the dark and struggle to write things down before they are lost. Equivalent was another word that hung around. Not sure why.

There is a blue sky after so many days of grey, overcast ones. Though the wind is wild. I remember our horses becoming skittish on windy days and galloping around the confines of their field, kicking up their hooves, tossing their manes and flicking their tails. I can see the white flashes on the waves on the sea.

I’ve much to do. And I’m hungry already. So much for oranges, eh? Coloured water, he says, coloured water.

By Ellen Bell

Artist and writer currently living in Aberystwyth.