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'scape, 2011, 6*, awareness, balance, cars, Castleton, clouds, dodder, looking, path, shadow, valley, walking
Peeks at Castleton
I should be taking the rise and distance of the gorge
head up
looking through the bottom of vari-focals the ridge is blurred
then looking down
at the cars making slow work through the bus-size gaps
while a
huge bowl of cloud runs a town of shadow over the whole valley
but
I’d lose my footing if I didn’t keep my mind on the stone path
and dodder
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
awareness & clouds wormholes: morning / cloud pass
balance wormhole: when anythinging
cars wormhole: Eglinton Hill
Castleton wormhole: strangers
looking wormhole: train journey
path wormhole: the path / no echo
shadow wormhole: relief
valley wormhole: when I sit I am the posture
walking wormhole: promenade: / dual layering
I can see that “town of shadow” moving….across…the…valley…
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This might sound strange, but this poem gives me vertigo.
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it don’t half move fast, dunnit!
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no … no … not at all: exactly what I was after; all the better to contrast the antidote – keeping the eye on the path and the dodder
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I love it – in a short space you’ve beautifully described the landscape and how it feels to be in/of it. You know dodder is a plant, too? It grows low, down near the path. Creeps along.
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oh yes, dodder – one of the few plants I know apart from dandelions, daisies and tulips!
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