Conduit, by Lee Mackenzie
/I have stood in two woods where I have lost my sense of up and down, left and right, forwards and back.
The first, Moseley Bog, is a fifteen-minute walk from my home, and one of the most frenetic woodlands around. A place where ivy and blackthorn vie for any frond of light, where calamitous trees fall, bridging muddy streams, then lie deathly for weeks before exploding in new growth. It is home to quick-eyed crows, to fingernail shrimp that sprint silently beneath the waterline. An ever-fracturing, ever-changing, morphous world that consumes its visitors, spins them around, then spits them out onto the B-roads.
The second is the opposite; that wood is the pine woodland on the hillside of the tidal island, Eilean Shona.
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