Saturday, August 27, 2011

On Entering the Strands of Trees from evangelyne on Vimeo.


On Entering the Strands of Trees


You walk towards a landscaped field
which raises your heart level. You leave

behind bad news, broken geraniums.
The park is freshly mown and the winter

so green it's no longer a rogue patch
of kindling and leaves, February heat,

and you’re avoiding the mobile phone
while listening to Natalie Merchant.

The grass trees are damsons twitching
amongst the strands of trees and there

is order in the urban vortex, a magpie and
willy wagtail morphing their visual song.

The park opens a pathway to an artist's future,
newfound aesthetics in Cedar, Olive Green

and May. A mimesis. The scene rises slowly
into itself, methodically in Derwent tips.

French and Gunmetal change the symmetry of
a blank page. The bush, a drug of infinite

detail, permeates a calm of egg and bacon plant,
purple wisteria, a photosynthesis of bark.

You scrape the page, and almost hearing the
struggle, the shade reaches out like a hand.


Music by Taylor Hayward, http://www.taylorhayward.org
PS: I've removed the video clip, but still practicing!

Friday, August 26, 2011

Anuna : Whispers of Paradise from Anuna on Vimeo.


Michael McGlynn produced this video of his time at The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Ireland. I'm hoping to film the same lake, grounds & also the house soon in September. Magic! You can find out about Michael on his website.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Odd Blocks
by Kay Ryan

Every Swiss-village
calendar instructs
as to how stone
gathers the landscape
around it, how
glacier-scattered
thousand-ton
monuments to
randomness become
fixed points in
finding home.
Order is always
starting over.
And why not
also in the self,
the odd blocks,
all lost and left,
become first facts
toward which later
a little town
looks back?

From "The Best of It" by Kay Ryan. A good poet to read for her quirkiness, turns of phrase and that have you thinking 'why can't I do that?'

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

First Burn
by Tracy Ryan

All day she has pitched dry grass, Hardyesque,
perched on the stack, helping to raze the block
in a race against shire deadlines: fire risk.

Only her colours are wrong — curls a stark
hedge in English autumn, young fragile skin
dead-of-winter white. But she will work

to feel she's useful, wanting to fit in,
all my cautions thrown to the easterly,
hot from the desert. I've done all I can —

this is the point, the moment beyond me
for which we've struggled, locked like Gabriel
and Jacob, though the outcome may not be

a blessing. She is tall and capable,
strong on the outside — surely that's enough.
To look at her now no one else could tell

what tinder, what touchwood she was made of.
By evening there appears a subtle glow
upon her shoulders, imprinted as if

someone had held her fast; by morning so
reddened and furious she is aflame
with reproaches, and cries: You made me go

to England and then you made me come home.
Non-sequitur, she knows, but all the same
I am the mother, I must wear the blame.

Currently reading Scar Revision and The Argument by Tracy Ryan. A great poet, highly understated and overshadowed. Her poetry is rhapsodic according to Geoff Page, but it's more - concise, succinct, accessible, minimalist, enough intertextuality without the whole academy. Poetry that engages the reader with form and feeling, and interesting subjects as well to simply enjoy. Precisely what poetry is meant to do! Check out Fremantle Press

Thursday, August 11, 2011













Some Ordinary Flower


If the body could float,
of course you might ride motionless
on the breeze,
skydive aerial arms slowly
down this ravine
feel the fuzzled damp
of foam
lightly touch rock
some ordinary flower

Sunday, August 7, 2011


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