I
.
Under a silent sky
the breathing forest.
Walk in
.
Devilla Forest, Fife.
.
II
.
Another shadow
of time passes.
Seasons come
seasons go.
.
.
Tuilyies standing stones (Bronze Age). Near Torryburn, Fife.
.
III
.
Ephemeral time:
a dragon’s breath
blown across
the sky?
.
IV
.
.
“Time Cuts Down all
Both Great and Small”
.
.
Anticipated time
never arrives.
2 ROOMS available
1 taken, 1850.
.
Dunfermline Abbey Churchyard, Dunfermline, Fife.
.
V
.
Only traces of
thresholds passed
time closed
arrested flows
.
Merchant City, Glasgow.
.
VI
.
Disruptive time
tears the tongue
of Ouroboros
.
New York City
.
VII
.
Wood and water
time stored flows
.
.
Storage vessels
of city dreaming?
.
New York City
.
VIII
.
Time passed
time remembered
the time of now
a time to come
.
Bench outside St Marks in the Bowery Church, New York. In memory of Greta C. Ghee
.
IX
.
Elemental time
a quiet creation;
In process
a living roof.
.
Devilla Forest, Fife.
.
.X
Time stacked
seasons circles.
Stored memories – of
sun
the wind
rain
the saw.
.
Devilla Forest, Fife.
.
Now playing: Marilyn Crispell / Gary Peacock / Paul Motion – Nothing ever was, anyway. Music of Annette Peacock.
Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea 
7 replies on “10 x Time Placed Sketches”
Thoroughly satisfying words and images as always. Lovely flows and shifts.
Thanks Alex. Never quite sure if this sort of thing ‘works’ so appreciate the comment.
I can talk for no one else but it works for me. The words like little chinks of light, just enough to gently light the images.
Many thanks Lines. That’s good to hear.
I love these glimpses of other places, other times; they’re like wonderful postcards from the road. Thanks for another terrific post to savour, Fifepsy!
Thank you Julian. ‘Postcards from the road’ – I do like that. Exactly what they are.
These are lovely – thought-provoking and profound. Love the way you end it with ‘the saw’.