Norwegian Wood

Once in a 1960’s June,
we hummed and changed a Beatles tune.
Now January frosts and freezes every month.
And Norwegian wood is Birnam come to Dunsinane.
I think I see them falling gently now,
another silver ashfall in the cold moonlight.

—a woman 
  Scottish Highlands 
  British Isles

 
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