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​Running

Takahē 92, April 2018
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The girl seems surprised to see me. I’m just as surprised to see her in this tucked-away corner of the gardens. They’ve changed the tracks and this part has become more isolated than I remember it. Back then, you’d see groups of runners clambering uphill, grunting, pausing to spit into the bushes or to re-tie their shoe laces. 
There’s a moment in which we both eye each other carefully. She’s wearing black jeans and the kind of floaty black top all the young girls wear now. Incognito. I can see she’s considering whether to turn back or stay and share the bench with some random woman.
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    • A part of the landscape
    • Brothers
    • Chance encounter
    • Disoriented
    • Don't Look Back
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    • Missing
    • On top of the tower
    • On the Beach
    • Postcard
    • Running
    • Scheherazade
    • The Birds
    • The Journey
    • The Poet's Grave
    • This Is Too Strange
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