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valley
we were evacuated during the war
from London to the Rhonda Valley
it was dark when we arrived
the sound of rocks woke me in the morning
I hadn’t heard them before
in such numbers
I looked at the strip of sky between the curtains
while my brother slept
a small cross a wooden chest minutes
ticked …
until he moved eyes already open
then two faces at the window gaping at bare hills
and one house
with three ponies in the paddock manes in the sun;
downhill was a black tower holding enormous wheels black
and then cables down to
a blacked hut and trucks and shacks dotted everywhere black
save the rail lines; shuntings
between the constant hisss, psssh
hooves in the street below pulling a float
‘cark’ of rooks above;
in time
doors opened: crystal streams before
racing the bracken which dipped and waved out to the next horizons
read the collected work of ‘Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters]‘ as it is published: here
this is an appliquiary to: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – The Valley
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black & faces & hills & house & London & morning & sleep & valley & windows wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – The Valley
curtains wormhole: at Kreukenhof
doors wormhole: there will be ovations
eyes & wind wormhole: breakfast
horizon wormhole: Candaka
listening wormhole: …zzh-vvttP*–… … …
sky wormhole: blue sky high
sound & water wormhole: psssssh
streets wormhole: THE ATTIC WHICH IS DESIRE: by William Carlos Williams
sun wormhole: ‘don’t look at it …’
time wormhole: everything is caused by something, which / something is caused by something else, nothing / stands alone where all pass as phantoms
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