{"id":851,"date":"2006-06-01T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T08:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dml360.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/01\/1-june-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-06-01T08:44:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T08:44:37","slug":"1-june-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=851","title":{"rendered":"1 June 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is not one of my ancestors, but a goosequarterer. If there is one thing the Internet is short of, it’s pictures of goosequarterers, so I am plugging the gap. I hope the goose was dead before it was quartered.\u00a0 This picture was taken yesterday in the Great Hospital, Norwich, which also features in its grounds a swan pit. Does the RSPB know about this? I do hope not.<\/p>\n

The Great Hospital is an impressive place. Dot and I were shown round it as part of the Waterways fortnight: we were in a group of about 20 which happened to include a guy from the last Developing Consciousness course and, even more surprisingly, a guy who e-mails me regular items for my column. Well, irregular items, more likely. Despite the antiquity of the picture on my page, he recognised me. There was no escape.<\/p>\n

It was quite cold by the swan pit, and I noticed a complete absence of swans. This was strange because the swan pit is sadistically just not long enough for a swan to take off, and it’s surrounded by railings and a slope. So the swans must have developed a secret tunnel to the Wensum, where they appear in quite large clumps. Last Friday some lanterns were launched on the Wensum as part of the Waterways opening, and the swans were very suspicious of them. Today I wrote this poem:<\/p>\n

LANTERNS ON THE WENSUM<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Dim, silken lights launch
\nsilently into the twilight
\nbarely breaking the lukewarm surface
\nof accepted lies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c
\ninconstant stream,
\ndamp, forceless field
\nfilled with mud and weeds:
\na trap for swimmers<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The lanterns float out quiet but insistent
\nstill small voices
\nconfronting unseen storms \u00e2\u20ac\u201c
\nholes hidden in the featureless river
\nthat masks eternity<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

In the flat tide they seem to fail
\nbut swans from the nearby pit
\ndark angels robed in deceptive white
\nsee them for what they are \u00e2\u20ac\u201c
\ndraw back<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

There is power in the smallest light
\nfloating in dark matter
\nresurrecting reality<\/span>
\n<\/font>drop by drop<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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