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Owl Suit
Zip. Click. Ready. Snug in the feather down you rise into the night sky, Owl eyes searching the foggy banks below. Somewhere out there Mr Fox is sleeping, Somewhere out there, Sleeping off the rich feast which he came across last Sunday, Hunger put off for a time: Travels in a Middle land Wolves, Dreams, Transformations…
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I’m on the right track (again) and falling into the open mouth of the beast
Hunger is all there is, the open devouring mouth of hunger, incessant, never ending hunger, demon mouth, the mouth from hell. Snake swimming, snake in boat, had it fallen from the distracted grip of an angel? Falling, perhaps a necessary humiliation, is, of course, prior to working out how to stand up again, to…
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Snake on Board
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How Can I Cope
It’s a covering, a cloak, or perhaps just a towel. Or a cappa ‘cape’, or pluviale ‘rain coat’ (if you prefer in latin). But whatever name we give it, it is still only a covering. Like skin. Or the hull of a boat. Cope. Any kind of covering will do, to throw over us when…
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Do you see that fire-breathing dragon
Fear must have its uses as we are trapped here, in this skin, in this cage, in this dark alley. Time passes, the plot thickens along with the fog – a real pea-souper – slightly thinner than mushy peas I suppose but all the same it is avowedly pea soup based on a ham stock…
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Searing Abundance
“We can’t go on like this!” the old man said raising his horn of plenty. Or did he say it in the first person? Or was it impersonal, “It can’t go on like this!”? The world is hotting up. No question about it, and it is not just climate change, it’s everything. Faster, swifter and…
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Naples, Nil Square
It is Italy, but not as we know it. Out of time and space, we’ve been some days in the city that was previously called “Nilsense” by its founders who came from Alexandria and settled here. The story is of a credit card lost somewhere on the way to the centre of Naples, while strolling…
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A checklist for the skip
What filters do we have in place? What flushing mechanism is fitted? Who is going first? Are you sure this isn’t a joke? How long is it since the last falling dream? The empty streets of deserted Pisa lie beneath somewhere in the darkness. Spinning fast I fling out a hand to grasp at…
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August says, Stop Right Here!
Stop right here for a conversation between fox and crow – or rather Mr and Mrs Fox on Passagiata having some words with a close call relative of crow. We are walking along the seashore not far from Chesil Beach last week in the afternoon of one of the last warm sunny August days of this long…
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Who owns these scrawny little feet?
‘In or around’ writes Rebecca Solnit (LRB Diary 29 August 2013) ‘June 1995 human character changed again.’ Do you even remember the last century? Or do I? It seems rather dream-like to me. Something that the the old people used to talk about. It goes along with the trenches of the First World…
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In That Case
The telephone went dead, and a few moments later the door bell went. Should I answer it I thought or try to get the call back? Perhaps they will go away, but the redial failed, the mobile signal had disappeared. Crossing point – Uncle Wally who was rippling at my side would call this an…
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“I see what it is about much of my writing that repels people”
The above title was in a letter from Ted Hughes to Keith Sagar and is quoted in the current LRB (29 August 2013 Half-Fox by Seamus Perry. It would seem possible that we are suffering from the same disease. Or perhaps discomfort is a better word. Or condition?? Perry, in his review, expends some energy…
Categories (2024) are:
- ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
- CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
- DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
- IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
- LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
- OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
- PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
- POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
- REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
- SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
- STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
- TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
- YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.