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Sage

The smell of Copydex seems to be lessening. I pulled out my desk and chest of drawers in the studio a little to see if I could locate its source but just found dust and a mass of cobwebs (ugh, how I struggle with such evidence of squalor, that, at the moment, I cannot seem to keep back). Nevertheless, I have been burning sage. The aroma comforts me as well as seducing me into believing that whatever ‘badness’ is or was causing the stink will be cleansed away. I hope it isn’t that possibly mythic baby bird, in the wall, decomposing. Would that smell like Copydex?

By Ellen Bell

Artist and writer currently living in Aberystwyth.