The Green Fields of Wales | North Wales, April 1998; the first time I was there, in 1992, the magical thing happened, and then the tree fellers did their thing, and this was my requiem, or revenge. It was beautiful up there. |
Allium Paradoxum | Padmaloka, April 1999; someone I live with found a plant nearby, which turned out to be Allium Paradoxum, known as the Few Flowered Leek - a lovely tiny thing, it revealed to me that I wasn't yet finished with the subject of the above poem. The Latin name means paradoxical onion. |
No | South Wales, June 1999; a journey that took a morning, but is still affecting me. It seems to belong with the other poems above, since the weird part of the journey started when I was taking a 'short cut' through a piece of 'managed' Welsh woodland. It took me nearly a year to get the title right - it started off as Noan, whatever the hell that is, but that also turned out to be no-one's koan. |
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