who knows how curlew
measures the arc-line of time?
in ebb tides & edges?
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A solitary curlew with raised, curved beak, walks across the foreshore at low tide. Sand and mud is peppered with dark clumps of rock and seaweed.
np: Joanna John / Burkhard Stangl — Birds Cannot Enter the Poem
Updated: Jan 23, 2025
sink and fizzle out the day
yet, a small stretch of the light
(on the day of the winter solstice)
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Flare of the setting sun, on the shortest day, over West Lothian. Dark water of the River Forth in the foreground. / Final flare of the setting sun, on the shortest day. Smears of cloud lit by pink and orange. Dark water of the River Forth in the foreground. Three cranes at Crombie Point on the right.
np: Fani Konstantidou — Winter
gone to earth: light tracings of meteor showers across the night sky; deep time skyline above the edge of the frozen loch
(railway station platform)
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Edge of the platform at Inverkeithing railway station. Contrasting slabs of dark & light coloured stone, with imperfections.
np: Microtub — Star System
