Category Archives: Poetry

Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest

Posted on 06/03/2013 by

Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A  smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal smudge bleeds into sun saturated blue. The universe … Continue reading →

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Through fence and over field, to beyond the hem of trees.

Posted on 24/12/2012 by

through fence and over field – to beyond the hem of trees. ♦ Thanks to all who have taken time to read any of the postings this year. It has been much appreciated and a delight to interact with so … Continue reading →

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The Woods and the Words

Posted on 15/11/2012 by

The stories are still told of a time before the water. When the earth lay heaped, black and smouldering. It is said that they tunnelled u n d e                                       g          r          o          u          n          d for black diamonds to … Continue reading →

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On experiencing a live performance of Morton Feldman’s Coptic Light

Posted on 19/09/2012 by

At the Edinburgh International Festival. Saturday 1st September, 2012. Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. ◊ A sounded weave ‘pedals’ on spectral slubs of small differences. Time’s flow, slows, to stasis a colour field revealed, in asymmetries of … Continue reading →

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4’33″ on a train – John Cage Centennial, 5th September 2012

Posted on 09/09/2012 by

Our modest contribution to the John Cage centennial celebrations. On 5th September 2012, we decided to undertake a performance of 4’33″on the train from Falkirk High to Glasgow Queen Street. Raising and lowering the seat tray served to mark the … Continue reading →

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T h r e s h o l d

Posted on 09/08/2012 by

trying to catch a thread of time when theincomingtide becomes the o u  t   g    o     i      n       g        t         i          … Continue reading →

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s i l e n t l y .. b e i n g .. s i l e n t

Posted on 22/07/2012 by

silently being silent ~ being silent silently . Now playing: Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem

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On the edge and further out: to slip through time

Posted on 07/06/2012 by

It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville I Out on the fringe of gold                         – lip of coastal edge. Eyeing that breath of line                        – flux of sea and sky. Grounded punctuation … Continue reading →

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This Land…

Posted on 24/05/2012 by

◊ This land these      rocks and stones vessels of deep time being                 before being inscribed in landscape before      being named and claimed as landscape. This land a made place a place       … Continue reading →

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Berlin dérive – Tiergarten

Posted on 25/04/2012 by

Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling. Walter Benjamin awaken, to the spooling thread of a … Continue reading →

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