[Byzantine Bindings]

Wednesday 8 September 2010

Landscape

Perhaps to speak
of the history
of the world
as a history of gardens
to portray the weft and the warp of ages
through the relationship we have with the land
how we lived with it
studied it
contained it
exploited it
wrung it dry
lost our respect for it
somewhere along the line
because we could
we did
but that didn't mean we should.

Wednesday 1 September 2010

On the allotment

Just finished mowing...
there seems to be too much in my head
need to give it expression
backed up
reservoir
cloud tear
dam burst
emotional
ready to bear all
am become a wanderer

Wanderer wrecca wretch
separated from the loaf lord
apart from the villiage

but what if my companions were ladybirds, pigeons, moths, soil and worm
what if there were another way?

" This is the sense but not the order of the words
as he sang them in his sleep; for verses, though
never so well composed, cannot be literally translated
out of one language into another without loss of their
beauty and loftiness." *



  Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907], at sacred-texts.com