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of passage

passage: from περᾰ́ω  (peráō)

to go from one side to another

to pass through, over or traverse, cross, esp. over water

(intransitive) to penetrate or pierce (of a pointed weapon)

Man flying with geese

crossing skies in fright

Skipping ahead of the snow-time

like an arrow skimming light.


Man slides behind seven-strong pair

wings thrashing the air

Man rides in up-draft

hair streaming and fair.


Man slides forward now

joining the seven-strong

Will he pull the flock along

or strive and loop and throng?


Wings caress the thermals

drinking height, drawing rest.

And far along the horizon

night's quiet waits.


Star gecko:


Light as a thousand suns

climbs the arc of heaven


Heart breathing, pulsing

vanities of light.


Feet tapping orbits

through the night


Life enfolded origami

patters across the sky


Watchful and waiting for the wild horse

comet to come streaming past


A wild ride to surf on

if you cross the night


And star gecko


Spins outwards on the carousel

through the sky.

Immense unpredictable force within a slim, fragile weed.


A slender lithe stick

perfected for precision

encases earth shattering,

ash spewing,

world-making god.

Burning hot lava

flows free creativity

in delicate wooden fibres

grown year by year.


Fireworks flash, a barrage

of searing unformed stone

shaped and contained

and then precision dosed.


Does the fire not reduce the reed to ash?


Does the reed not choke the fire to ash?


Neither wins, neither loses:

the tussle tripples on,

making worlds, shifting landscape

blows traded, barely contained.


The magma beneath,

like the sap of the tree,

waiting then shooting forth

islands and buds.

COLLECTIONS

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DEATH BY AGREEMENT

some seem to have agreed a pact for passage.
tidings hard to fathom.

STRANGE WATERS

experimental forms and thoughts that seem to come from elsewhere

AS IT IS

here now: this is what we find, this is what we see, this is what finds us

TRACERY

second and third associations. words and shapes.

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ANGRY RED SUN, PALE SHADOWED NIGHT

a second stab at a book-style tranche of writings. formed in the end not entirely how it was intended.

THROUGH LIGHT

first steps. written mostly past midnight through dawn. night muse visitations.

WHO AM I?

Strandloper, edge-dweller, being. Sometime poet.

This site began as insomnia. Soon there were enough words for a book (Through Light). A little later, another collection was almost a book (Angry Red Sun, Pale Shadowed Night). Then came snatches of someone's thoughts from somewhere (As It Is). Dark tidings have also been received (Death by Agreement).
Along the way there are words on a plane (Tracery).

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WRITE_1: a write of passage.

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