I've been tinkering with this one for about three years now, and am just trying to iron out any remaining glitches.

Rob



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Call her: Out of the hunt, middle, in and out at 5, right, middle, wrong, right, middle and into the hunt (4 times repeated)

Change-ringing instructions.



Wheel, Rope and Bell


The Quick Work

There are hammers in this
and flat swung clamouring
bronze flung skyward.
Treble and bass,
saint-named, stake claims
in the course, and every cascade
thrown from the high-stone
speaks in the steely wind;
preaching fear and elation
to the opened fields.


Dodging

Follow through columns,
see the twist of the courses:
The one bell falling and gaining.
In slow, half turn, right, middle,
wrong, right, the second half-turn
and into the hunt.
An echoing silence.
Strands of the peal
knell wracked in the songbirds;
A strange competition
threading the thermals
with dissonant rainbows
of primary sound.


The Slow Work

The edifice wrought by wheel and rope
is of definite time, and its foxlike employment
will fall and diminish, wrong and home.
The touched observation of circles and calculus
must end in nothing, rest in the stone.
Out of the hunt, called and repeated,
four times repeated, wrong and home.



Rob Yeatman