Birds of the Sherborne Missal X
Kyngynsfystere, Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) for Andrew T. River-babel is silence & intransigence, relinquished, becoming liquid. Interpretations manifest beyond the confines of a small group of trees. Glimpsed, a gift granted to only the righteous; low over the water, seeking its reconfigured ark. Mythologised chromatics: the banded demoiselle, ocellate wings of the peacock butterfly, the emperor’s patrolling eye. Skimmers & chasers. A floating nest at once hollow & solid, hexatinellid structures crystallising outward. Crumbling in the hand, Aristotelian flim-flam, a fabrication from the spines of garfish. Vire-vent; dried & hung by its beak, the body would constantly turn, breasting the weather’s direction. Wind-blown & touched by the fire. As though that vital spark survived still, through the agent of “mysterious energetic remains”. At the surface, the piercing plunge into air, penetration of the aqueous envelope, reflexive sun augmented by an orrery of lights. A sense of, underneath, the ruins of another older river & then another & another; a depositional sequence of events. Mille-feuille, mille-fiori, the interleaving of crack willow & goat willow. Speckled wood, clouded yellow. blue blue my love: is blue your illuminating presence in my life Birds of the Sherborne Missal XIV Larke, Skylark (Alauda arvensis) For Luke Was once animal. Weight of a new-born calf, living inks perfused throughout its skin. Mirabile dictu. In winter season, the wether being not to owtragios, dothe waxe wonderus fatte. Sprung out from under this weight of words, the great singing heart tore right out of it, pinned against sky. Turning a blind eye to. Sumped in ranunculus, claws of clutched light. Fugitive moments of response amongst predators & prey leave stigmata on flesh, on instinct. Quiet, quiet. Occluded memories of feint & double-bluff nest unharmed within celebrations for decayed fallstreaks of ice, hypothetically plotted. Cirrus intortus. At the perihelion, light bleeds into black, darkness widens under sparkle of whatever joy. Head over heels, nothing holds but in small things, enshrined in nitrogen, agricultural dust. Imbricate; the overlapping of leaves, of roof-tiles, a late the Abbate of Shirburne maner place, boundaries endorsed by badger latrines. Rumours of ancient deerparks recede into mythic dissolve, a “dry & sinuous valley”, a king’s grace invested in soil. Messaging via the contraplex: someone told me it was #fossilfriday @ dawn how do you sing a cluster on #dictionaryofstone. Profuse, unpremeditated, delivered soaring. Released unto the day. Echo, echo lalia la la la from yesterday’s footprint, a seed sprouts pale, cotelydonous |
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