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The yellow school bus slowed down to meet the road cut between two hills covered in poplar and aspen and evergreen trees. Branches reach out to each other, secret friends whispering an alert of intrusion to rustled sunbathing. Inside the yellow bus children chatter and laugh, collect and organize, layer, cloak and zip up.

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Quinn-Hall, C. (2016). Poetics in a Capacious Landscape. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_8

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