{"content":[{"text":"Better Nature","bbox":{"left":0.429231,"top":0.083547,"width":0.12747500000000006,"height":0.01962699999999999}},{"text":"Dear Manager of my local Morrisons branch; \n regarding all the litter on your sprucely-landscaped \n grounds, flourishing under the sign that trumpets \n ‘Bringing you the best of Scotland’. Sadly, the winter just past","bbox":{"left":0.255627,"top":0.121104,"width":0.5451490000000001,"height":0.07492699999999998}},{"text":"revealed, as the shrubs died back, the same old \n discarded junk: a trail of throwaway drinks-cans, disposably- \n branded cups, (contents, dregs to barely drunk), sneezed- \n through tissues, off-cuts of pipe just chucked, tradesman’s","bbox":{"left":0.255426,"top":0.21546,"width":0.53678,"height":0.07602599999999995}},{"text":"tape strewn and tangling in nature’s way. Earlier, \n verbal appeals having failed to take root: the first time, \n it was the council’s patch; the second, agreeing \n it was growing on your watch, assurances scattered","bbox":{"left":0.255627,"top":0.312128,"width":0.482504,"height":0.07374999999999998}},{"text":"came to nought, oversight prevailing. If you’d witnessed \n the used-nappy bundle hung among a cluster \n of saplings; if you’d envisaged those same trees \n bearing their future of parcelled shit-and-piss fruits....","bbox":{"left":0.255426,"top":0.403922,"width":0.49527000000000004,"height":0.07616899999999999}},{"text":"It all stems, I know, from others’ casual misdeeds, \n those strands of unthinking behaviour that can spring \n from deeper things, strangle roots of promise; their tendrils \n winding up subsea, stifling the life of once-timeless oceans.","bbox":{"left":0.255426,"top":0.500578,"width":0.52905,"height":0.0737500000000001}},{"text":"I grow dizzy picturing the planet – a swirling mass \n of plastics, polyethylene scarfing in place of cloud; so forgive me \n for starting small, with this fucked-up fraction of Earth, \n before its impression of indifference hardens into a fossil.","bbox":{"left":0.255426,"top":0.592372,"width":0.573332,"height":0.07616900000000004}},{"text":"It really needn’t take much – perhaps an afternoon – to fish \n out the worst embedded stuff, then a follow-up trawl once \n a week – just to keep abreast: a small price for grasping the thistle, \n coming up with the best of Scotland. Please don’t bin this epistle.","bbox":{"left":0.255426,"top":0.686764,"width":0.5964449999999999,"height":0.07478399999999996}},{"text":"Yours hopefully","bbox":{"left":0.255627,"top":0.780977,"width":0.13878200000000002,"height":0.019584000000000046}},{"text":"Mora Maclean","bbox":{"left":0.261271,"top":0.837633,"width":0.13317900000000005,"height":0.01962699999999995}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}