MM has been writing three beautiful things in Finnish. Translation here.
1. Fenella notices a yellow spotted butterfly sunning itself on a gravestone.
2. He tips himself back and lies along my legs. He looks so pleased with himself -- and with the dark yew branch against the sky -- that I don't want to lift him up again (until I remember that he's still very full of milk).
3. To have my husband home on a weekday.
Steaming, cold and drawn away.
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