Wednesday, 19 October 2011

october 19 2011

october 19 2011

the lock on the gate is broken
a supreme cloudless day
remains of our twig, acorn, leaf task shuffle along the edge of the pond
remnants of our path still there
just over a week and nature has subsumed our human journey
melded and melted in
and one marvelous purple marsh thistle shines where there was nothing
priest-like in the straight sun
the roof is collapsing
forecourt covered in straight lines of thatch
animaled off the roof, or is it birds

I found the 'key'
I found the stored handful of wildflowers
I found today's wildflower

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Loren & Poppy


P1012765.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

Poppy & Loren

12 Dancing Princesses

butcher
idolize
endure
empower
aggrandize
avenge
host
civilise
caress
entrance
encarcerate

Sunday, 9 October 2011

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P1012683.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

october 9

Friday, 7 October 2011

Friday, 26 August 2011

the rain has been heavy eyebrowed all day letting go at the least provocation

cows, black, sway in the front field and the cautious wind scatters the rain dumped grass

the bracken has an arguement - a loose canon of a weed lords over it
nettles just hover to the side ,dense and unshadowed among fireweed billowing like gauze

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Monday, 25 July 2011

july 26

ages have past
in time, place, creations
leaving here two weeks ago in tune with the dancers in sunrise
to the tune of Saul and Handel in Buxton
a day with Judith here with thorns, string, drawing
Candle only three weeks ago
Argentina, Pelleas and Melisande, 8 dancers
party birthday

a quiet solemn day Joanna has left after 5 weeks
walking in a trance to the barn
wildflowers into their seedings
deep colours aching purple, intense yellow
purity white of bindweed

cross the makeshift bridge  glance down at a flash of red
a candle, used, startling it must be mine?
dragged from the cells of death in the bunker somehow lost here among the grass
trickster of many stories
memories continually being made
a shock
like finding part of me in an unexpected place
7 magpies over the thatch
so secrets
who knows

Sunday, 10 July 2011

tree of listening waver with me
untidy, hairy, Twombley-like
scribbled down
quick notes and glanced ideas
flickering words that light up

carry moonshine lichen
like blotting of ink on best waterclour paper
edges magnified with reverberation

a bird unknown flies suddenly up
with loud song right over my head

first walk down upper field after sunrise
clouds of crickets clatter like tiny firecrackers
greeting each step like a magnificent coronation

sunset july 9

dawn dancers in landscape

dawn

pre dawn dancers in landscape

dawn dancers in landscape

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Saturday, 11 June 2011

heavy feeling as leaves crowd onto trees
pulling down edges, cluttering  branches
whats the word -
torpid
hungover

nettles

shuffling nettles fully loaded with itchy blossom
reach up like old-fashioned umbrella handles
their dried blood stems waver in the wind
and battle back invincible

nettles

cows needing a new gate

june 11

the gate is mended
it fluttered on opening like unfolding fingers
and shuddered back to place broken
in an underhand way
the cows arrived with bellows
and metal scaffolds for their hay
and a new gate

Monday, 30 May 2011

Docks

Docks

Docks

describe the dock
the nettle, buttercup
and acid blue strip of dragonfly

docks with bronze eaten spots, foxed rims, red veins, sun spot damage

curl up, lose moisture

to see aging as a dock leaf
experience and weathers
rampled, moulded, torn, dissolved,
other lives showing through the holes

colours adrift
clashing reds mutate into green that stutter into yellow
dried out to burnt orange

a healer, soothes the sting
touch and rub
sometimes works
like us

Docks

Docks

Docks

Monday, 23 May 2011

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

meadow


P1011807.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

hanging poets


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uneven afternoon unlacing the poets
cutting the twine
unwinding tiny bits of wire
floating words laid flat
go home carrying my holey writers

Clare & Robert


P1011793.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

gardening poems


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Alan doing notes on Edward Thomas


P1011765.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

Nash from Much Ado Books


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getting the tea ready


P1011773.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

Judy's cakes


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Scarlett


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teacups


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P1011761.JPG, originally uploaded by Clare Whistler.

Edward Thomas Day May 8th