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  It’s a how many layers? kind of day The sun is out but further away A scanning the station piazza  For whose wearing what morning A fur trimmed parka comes out Without warning With autumnal clarity Overcoated punctuality Beard sprouting from underneath surgical mask New normal actuality Stick up man ticket collector Hello stranger I’m sure I once met you Back in the old times When did this all begin? Please wear your face Covering correctly It must be over the nose To work effectively. I’m working up a head of steam Heading for platform two Hope I wake up from this dream  pen my eyes and see you It’s a how many layers  kind of day Always wear a vest when work rest or play It’s the same but different Life with brand new insertions More terms and conditions And upgraded versions Now your train won’t be stopping There’s no time for hesitation It’s the refrain we are adopting At this our final destination Buddleia railings ivy and brambles Layer upon layer of signs, poin s and cables Fai

    Anna Fairchild BA (Hons) MA DFA   Song of the Fig and Apple, 2020 The film takes its reference, in part, from William Blake’s  Songs of Innocence and Experience; Holy Thursday, published in 1789. Is this a holy thing to see In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand? Is that trembling cry a song? Can it be a song of joy? And so many children poor? It is a land of poverty! And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns: William Blake moved from London to Felpham on Thursday 18 th  September 1800. On arrival he mentions the wind, trees, birds and the air in a letter to his patron Thomas Butts. The experience of the abundant garden and landscape around Felpham, with a vision of God on the beach at Bognor Regis had a life changing effect on Blake.  Apple and fig trees often appear symbolically in biblical and other religious texts; the apple falling from the tree and eaten by Adam and