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Wind ought to be a verb or an adverb. It isn't really anything. It's a manner of movement of warmth and cold: a kind of information system of the air.
Alice Oswald
Alice Oswald
Born: 1966

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Wind, Cold, Ought, Air, System, Kind, Verb, Movement, Anything, Information, Warmth, Manner, Really

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