" title="Painted, spoken James Aitchison
Dipper-Wishing
Fells over Derwentwater were drying out.
The beck below Mary Mount had lost its voice.
Bed-stones were dry-backed in the shallow water.
Trout were trapped in isolated pools.
The level was too low for dippers or dipper-wishing…
A brown-topped rounded stone, pale underside,
bobbed up and down. Midstream, another bobbing stone.
Feeding from the surface, a dipper pair.
To be in the right place at the right time
sounds like wishing. But dippers choose time,
and so you have to wish and wait,
wish and return to the place day in day out.
Living dippers are proof that we still have time
to renew their tenancy and ours, restore the calendar.
Dippers in a dry season
are living proof of dipper-wishing’s power.
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