Everything stares back at me, nameless, grey and solitary. Nothing moves, can’t lift my arm, Speech dies on my leaden tongue. Meaning drains out of the world as if some frightful plug were pulled. I rest in my paralysis to conceal my helplessness, a moment of absolute stasis, but I dare not stay like […]
Here are few waymarks, old time, new time, time pressing through, water wears out stone, earth eats bone, rich food for deep down where roots reach; this is the track that leads back, up and along the crest, against the sky where the huge clouds brush over, back to the trackless. Here you may be […]
Buddleia burns purple incense, ragwort, bindweed, put forth joy rampant. Here in the cracked earth, rank beauty claims its scrap of world, intent incarnate in sappy stems, and bitter juices, rich nourishment! The green need to grapple, to feed on light, to scatter seed, enflowers them; let me learn from the dandelion, breaking anew through […]
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