"rurban" - "ruburbia" - now that's got to find its way into a poem.
Yes, Riley is a fascinating poet in this sense - and someone whose
work might be interesting to explore across the list in the context
of this discussion. I am following his "Alstonefield" walk - cycles
of? (or, at least, instalments of serial wandering with some kind
of end in "site") - with genuine excitement! The shortest distance
between two points is a straight line... so what!
"Like walking a long corridor in a hospital
the bushes in their white coats and this
shiny conveyor belt running alongside bearing
weathering solutions, enzymes, floods of tears
back to the town. Things that reach across.
Plodding on stony track next the stream I
think of lovers Alzheimer's patients
moving to the world's edge and bearing its content.
The joining of souls is worth all the moonlight
down which the eyes draw their long content."
Peter Riley, from "Alstonefield"
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