Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton scots "—Breon Mitchell"Burton Pike captures the

"—Breon Mitchell"Burton Pike captures the sonorousness

there can still be overwhelming isolation

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Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton scots "—Breon Mitchell"Burton Pike captures thePublished 31st August 2026 Borrowed Ground by JLM Morton is a lyric ecology of dread, devotion, and damaged inheritance, written from woods, lanes, riverbanks, and suburban edges where the nonhuman world keeps pressing its claims. These poems move between tight, image led lyrics and more expansive prose blocks, braiding birds, seeds, fungi, and weather with biblical echo, mythic return, and the daily abrasions of modern life, from fly tipping and job