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    • in and out / the Avebury stones / can’t seem to get / a signal …
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more importantly

09 Thursday May 2013

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'scape, 2011, 6*, afternoon, attention, branches, combe end, openness, pigeon, sound, squirrel, sun, time, trees, windows

 

 

 

                                for minute after minute
                                an alarm rilling through
                                the open windows
                                of a hot afternoon
                                and all the while
                                the cracking picking
                                twicking of a squirrel
                                working out on a branch
                                somewhere          but then

                                                                                    more importantly

                                              a pigeon –
                                `hadn’t noticed –
                                                              on a bare branch looking
                                              another way

                not calling

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

attention wormhole: ‘no …’
branches wormhole: Science lesson
combe end wormhole: in the kitchen
openness wormhole: open / window
pigeons wormhole: first dog / in the park
sound wormhole: anatta
squirrel wormhole: almost-Escher
sun & trees wormhole: heavy shower …
time wormhole: eighth birthday // now
windows wormhole: morning / cloud pass

 

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almost-Escher

13 Sunday May 2012

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'scape, 2008, 4*, bedroom, brown, cars, clouds, combe end, kitchen, red, squirrel, streets, sun, willow, windows

 

 

 

                      almost-Escher

            foreground: a three-wicked
            candle shimmering
            through its walls before

            the creosoted fence
            past the wing of the
            willow tree hanging
            across the street
            a break in the clouds
            somewhere lights the windows
            of the upstairs bedrooms
            while a car reverse-parks
            in front and

            a squirrel stops
            on the creosote fence
            one paw up at his chest waiting
            for the sun to shine
                      again

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

bedroom wormhole: ‘finished reading …’
brown wormhole: 1972
cars wormhole: ‘after …’
clouds wormhole: the moon
combe end wormhole: ‘at night …’
kitchen & willow wormhole: then
red wormhole: retirement
squirrel wormhole: when things fall apart
streets wormhole: ‘left now …’
sun wormhole: ‘a spark …’
windows wormhole: ‘turning right …’

 

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when things fall apart

24 Tuesday Apr 2012

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'scape, 2005, 5*, breakdown, clouds, combe end, conservatory, grey, morning, Pema Chödrön, pigeons, sky, squirrel, trees

 

 

 

                                when things fall apart

                in the conservatory
                at 6:40 am

                while the pigeon
                called

                a single squirrel
                made its way

                jumpily and definitely
                twenty feet up through

                the tangle of branches
                in the new grey light

                of the dark clouds

 

 

 

————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–

clouds wormhole: washing up
combe end wormhole: open window
conservatory wormhole: ”hmm …’ …’
grey & sky & trees wormhole: driving
morning wormhole: late morning / Saturday

 

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"... the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful; it is destructive.    Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.   You open your safe to find ashes. ~ Annie Dillard

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  • Bodhisattvacharyavatara
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Introduction
  • collected works
    • 25th August 1981 – count Up
    • askance From Hell
    • Batman
    • Bob 1995-2012
    • David Bowie Movements in Suite Major
    • Edward Hopper: Poems at an Exhibition
    • Eglinton Hill
    • FLOORBOARDS
    • Granada
    • in and out / the Avebury stones / can’t seem to get / a signal …
    • Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters]
    • Miller’s Batman
    • mum
    • nan
    • Portsmouth – Southsea
    • Spring Warwick breezes / over Bacharach fieldwork and boroughs with / the occasional shift and chirp of David / in the pastel-long morning of the sixties
    • The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford
    • through the crash
  • index
    • #A-E see!
    • F–K, wha’ th’
    • L-P 33 1/3 rpm
    • Q-T pie
    • U-Z together forever
  • me
  • others
  • poemics
  • poeviews
  • teaching matters
  • wormholes

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