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Sam Smith books
Category:
Essays
Publisher: Amazon
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 64
Copyright: Decmber 2022
ISBN-13: 9798363064814
Price: $1.99 (eBook)
A collection of short prose pieces, some of which could be prose poetry, the longer possibly short stories.
A collection of oddities gathered together over 50 years of writing.
Excerpt
Making Light
Depending on the height of the troposphere skies will have different colours. For instance the troposphere being lower in the sub-Arctic the sky has a deeper midday blue, that same blue that condenses inside wind-curved icebergs. Whereas an almost white sky, air-thin blue, dissipates above the stone-baked Mediterranean coast. In between is the temperate zone's grey mountain light, where clouds hang damply dark, valley fields below seeming to glow a luminous green. Until sunset that is when the horizontal light, filtered by the gravity-thickened atmosphere, pollution's suspended microbes, brings the yellow spectrum to the fore, giving us many-hued grasses, armies of golden tussocks, one broken bracken frond, cattle-red rust streaks on a corrugated shed. And when late summer's flat-bottomed cumulus hang above the gilt-touched forest is when the red of rose hips and the berry clusters of mountain ash leap to the eye. Until day-round low winter light shines shamelessly into unleafed trees, exposes skinny moss-clad trunks, delicately picks out willow finger strands of snuff and ochre.
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