thanks doug (and sorry for the delay in saying so - have been somewhat busy
- mostly in a very pleasant way!)
On 28 April 2014 16:07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I see & hear this, David, Especially liked the jar of 'someone shorter
> else,' & how the writing/walking must alter....
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> Get what you say about walking through time(s)....
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> Doug
> On Apr 27, 2014, at 12:30 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > *Crossing the Mud, the Day Finds *
> >
> > me walking on the line
> > of a worn, smothered path
> > through a brown muddy,
> > mud-muddled, ridge and furrow
> > field (‘rig’, I’m told, they say
> > ‘rig’ in the county)
> >
> > trying to follow
> > someone shorter
> > else’s steps, footsteps,
> > the glue pull of slippage
> > either side. By *Smeeton*
> > (the Smith’s *toun*)
> >
> > *Westerby* (the West farm).
> > Appreciate how hard it is to follow
> > in someone else’s steps. The as they say
> > to follow. To literally.
> > No other gait goes
> >
> > quite the same,
> > on the ancient path. Your stride
> > has to bend and buckle, your ham-strings
> > strain like balked wood, your eyes
> > become transfixed,
> > you lose
> >
> > all sense of track
> > and where (
> > *in the field, the goo mud field*) of what
> > is above, beside, behind you, of where
> > you are heading
> >
> > other than those prints,
> > the small moist prints like mist,
> > on the human way,
> >
> > *writhen *
> > the ever-writing map,
> > across dumped ploughed centuries,
> > the snake-track
> > before you.
> >
> > --
> > David Joseph Bircumshaw
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> >
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> Douglas Barbour
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
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