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2016, 8*, abandonment, autumn, branches, breakdown, brown, career, direction, element, freedom, getting ground, ground, horizontal, identity, institution, leaves, planet, rain, reaching, retirement, teaching, wind, work, yellow
where am I
cast free here
where the wind resolves
horizontal and
implacable between
the necessary institution
passageways;
I held on
long as I could
way after I’d turned
glorious yellow
wet, brown and pasted
to the bifurcating
branch, tensile to every gust;
because
I was tired of any
direction at all;
to the ground with me,
then,
stability and whimsical reach were
never my natural element,
open out to minute
breakdown
deep
into a revolving planet and
leave (ha!) myself
mulched to branch
monument to vainglory
retirement #1: a significant passage in life which doesn’t have a particular rite, religious or otherwise; I have retired since the beginning of this academic year – I had a flurry of written response when I holidayed in Granada, but since then, nothing; I have not been writing much, I have been cast adrift (the end of my career was what was left after my ability to keep going in to teach at school, eventually dissolved … fizzled) …
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abandonment wormhole: beepbeep
autumn wormhole: 1964
branches wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Snow
breakdown wormhole: dry rot
brown wormhole: magnificent salad
career & teaching wormhole: just saying, is all VI: // accountable / for my own outbreath / …
identity & work wormhole: matter
leaves wormhole: Prajnaparamita // Maitreya
rain wormhole: balance
retirement wormhole: Granada holiday …
wind wormhole: 1964
yellow wormhole: … swap round
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