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Radio Scotland,4 mins

Isle of Man: Janet Lees

Poetry Postcards

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Resort In the dark months the sea shows its hand, dumping stones as big as cannonballs at the doors of The Trafalgar. Inside, a fibreglass Viking guards the flat screen TV and Ida Kelly leads a sing-song on her squeezebox - a gift from the last accordion factory in France. Less than half your blood belongs here. Past and future run through you like blurred words in seaside rock. Every August you drown in carnival crowds that disperse at dusk, leaving you stood before a Punch & Judy stall on the beach. Looking out past its candy-stripe curtains, you watch the fins of a basking shark glide by, pointing towards other bodies of land.

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