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"Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest."

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About Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is a British poet. Her work includes collections such as Dart and Falling Awake.

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