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Some days every thing is elemental
In the market square I bought
ten yellow tulips, grown in a field
under a blue sky, row upon row
now grown old, they flare
open petals widen, bowing reaching
greeting the air, becoming more free
and lighter, as if somewhere wild roses called to them
to be wind blown frayed and wet.
Scattering their clothes like so many petals
the children return from school to dance
to leap and stamp as if to wake the earth
and conjure again the wood, the orange moon
through the magical power of their swishing hair.
Some days every thing is elemental and I float
in the bath, feeling the water flowing between my fingers
as if it were still plentiful, smelling softly of peat
with small black elvers swimming in its dark green secrets
beginning their life journey back to the Sargasso Sea.
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Elvers
The eel is on the point of extinction. Since the fifties, the number of eels has declined sharply. The influx of elvers, young eels which swim from the ocean up river, in recent years is less than 1% of the level in 1950. It was in the fifties that dioxins started to appear in the environment.
19/05/06
ten yellow tulips, grown in a field
under a blue sky, row upon row
now grown old, they flare
open petals widen, bowing reaching
greeting the air, becoming more free
and lighter, as if somewhere wild roses called to them
to be wind blown frayed and wet.
Scattering their clothes like so many petals
the children return from school to dance
to leap and stamp as if to wake the earth
and conjure again the wood, the orange moon
through the magical power of their swishing hair.
Some days every thing is elemental and I float
in the bath, feeling the water flowing between my fingers
as if it were still plentiful, smelling softly of peat
with small black elvers swimming in its dark green secrets
beginning their life journey back to the Sargasso Sea.
***************
Elvers
The eel is on the point of extinction. Since the fifties, the number of eels has declined sharply. The influx of elvers, young eels which swim from the ocean up river, in recent years is less than 1% of the level in 1950. It was in the fifties that dioxins started to appear in the environment.
19/05/06
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