"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

12 October 2023

Gnawed.

Thomsen, Northern Lake, 1913


JOURNEY NORTH

Skyline waving like a banner
tugging folds and wrinkles straight,
vaulting bridges, shadowed valleys
plunge into the tunnel’s maw and then –
A bight out of the land, a crescent shore
of splintered shoals and rocks
gnawed by the breakers, rank on rank –
a hunch-backed cottage clenched against the cold

and in a scratched out garden by the beach,
raising their faces to the silent sky

a blaze of sunflowers.

Ian Stuart

It's sandwich time.

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