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2017, 7*, black, brick, Carol, crank, faces, glasses, grey, hair, Ironbridge, leaves, mirror, progress, purple, railtrack, reading, steam, sunglasses, table, thrust, time, trees, Victorian, walls, wind, windows, wood
greased and black teeth interlock
in turn from steam built to release
to crank the thrust trained to track
sooner ahead and curving to distant
future while bricks stack high to
shape an echoey wall up to 1000 a
day, coal-faced and sullen and bolts
sunk into wood that will never be
undone again all the while
the wind blows the upper trees …
— O —
bottom of the tall mirror above
the wooden table tops the back
of handsome hair let grey with
sunglasses and purple glasses on
the end of her nose reading
something carefully before the
five-high-four-wide-flank-of
paned windows all along the front of the Refreshment Pavilion and
when the wind blows high
… the underleaves show
Blists Hill is a delightfully recreated Victorian industrial town near Ironbridge, Shropshire which tags itself ‘The Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution’ we revisited in May 2017
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
black & purple wormhole: polystyrene / boulderscape
Carol & hair wormhole: Sheffield Park Gardens
faces wormhole: sharpened apex
glasses wormhole: Batgirl –
grey wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J Redford – Working
leaves wormhole: travelling // arrival
mirror wormhole: Coleton Fishacre
reading & wind wormhole: perspective
table wormhole: green and / luminant / to behold
time wormhole: Bridgnorth
trees & windows & wood wormhole: {Ellen Terry’s house}
walls wormhole: behind / glass walls and wan and hooded eye
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