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filigree roots dissimulate the soil
at the bottom of shallow waters
(like a diagram – no contact, with
sheath of border); a stalk will grow
through water, sure twists towards
the light; on the surface petals will
open wide without shame and wait
for the floret to rise from the bract
then release just three boats for to
float the potent cargo where the
movement of water will hazard the
inexorable kiss; but there is no
morphology or physiology of
vallisneria, only certain quest from
darkness to light, and the surface-
knowledge retrieved back; I am
a Londoner born through war to
work the land to look for pattern in
life to make, trusting it is there to
swim through, but lost in currents
to and `fro with only adventitious
and god-like perspective when I
contemplate in four-line stanza …
sometimes
read the collected work as it is published: here
this is an appliquiary to : The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – Introduction
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1967 & life & uncle & work wormhole: The Boats of Vallesneria by Michael J. Redford – Autumn Thoughts
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waiting wormhole: and that’s where I are
war wormhole: the coming of ‘The Boats of Vallisneria’ by Michael J. Redford
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