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Originally published: 2006-02-22

Author: Gareth Evans

Original publication timestamp: 22 February 2006 at 5:46 pm

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## [Minutes in a City Churchyard](https://animate.org.uk/editorial/2006/02/minutes-in-a-city-churchyard/)

Ecstasy of trees
above the wounds

light leafing itself
immaculate as the conception
that we
are

this light
such journey
and gift
it becomes the wound.

Gareth Evans

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