Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea
walking / writing / between world and word
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Gothic lungs, breathe
still, winter air
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Arms outstretched
movement in stasis
a silent cry
sounded in ink
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Now Playing: Laura Cannell – ‘Banshee’ from Swooping Talons Remixes (Charles Hayward and Merlin Nova remix).
Aberdour, Fife, 16th January, 2016.
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through the longest night
city lights nod
to the solstice moon
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with a turning of the sun, weak
but stronger,
the eternal return
of expanding light
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New beginnings, or
slow endings?
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Sun warmed, stories
in the stones, record
new chapters, of
weather human writing
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The Unbearable Loneliness of the Solitary Buckie Bottle
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Now playing: Ralph Towner – Solstice
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Two divining rods
dowsing the sky
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A fragment falling
pooling at my feet
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Looking from Leith Walk, Edinburgh, on 25th November towards the vestiges of the Shrubhill tramway workshops and power station. The power station opened in 1898 and housed the haulage engines for cable-tramway operations. By 1922 the power station had closed with the tramway workshops continuing in use until 1956.
The site was also once known as the Gallow Lee where a gibbet stood for public executions. There are numerous accounts of murderers, Covenanters, warlocks and witches being executed and buried on the site between 1570 and 1752.
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Waves of molten lava
breaking – on
the blue shore
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An early morning sky over Limekilns, Fife on 25th November 2015. The sky as apocalyptic beach.
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View from the train – take that #BlackFriday
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On the East Coast mainline. Taken and posted on Twitter on 27th November 2015.
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Now playing: David Torn – Only Sky
Almost fully formed, a singing light filling the sky. The temptation to climb up a ladder, over the chimneys and walk through the clouds. Like a moth, drawn towards the light.
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On nights such as this, we all stop to gaze at the moon.
But the moon returns our gaze. Whispers softly to us:
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In the dark, I see
a small blue planet.
Care for her well.*
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The moon photographed over Fife on 27th August, 2015.
*a contribution to Ai Weiwei & Olafur Eliasson’s interactive Moon project.
Now playing: Terry Riley and Don Cherry – ‘Descending Moonshine Dervishes’ from Live Köln 1975
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Very small ghost sign on doorway entrance, St Leonard’s Street, Southside, Edinburgh.
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“To dwell means to leave traces”.
Walter Benjamin
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On the front elevation of the same building. Traces of the old bell pulls.
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Now playing: Polwechsel & John Tilbury – ‘Place/Replace/Represent’ from Field.
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from source to sea:
the desire line
of water
rarely follows
a straight path
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Flux -> Flow -> Gravity -> Time:
all combine
with light, to reveal
the sounds and colours
of falling water
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All of the utterances.
From a babble of words,
a line of desire
occasionally emerges
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Images from a walk between Kincardine and Culross and from St Fillans Churchyard Aberdour.
Now playing: Philip Jeck and Jacob Kirkegaard – Soaked
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Images taken from a short walk on the Water of Leith, between the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and Stockbridge on 27th June 2015.
Now playing: Kevin Drumm – Reverse Osmosis
I
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Under a silent sky
the breathing forest.
Walk in
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II
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Another shadow
of time passes.
Seasons come
seasons go.
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III
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Ephemeral time:
a dragon’s breath
blown across
the sky?
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IV
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“Time Cuts Down all
Both Great and Small”
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Anticipated time
never arrives.
2 ROOMS available
1 taken, 1850.
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V
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Only traces of
thresholds passed
time closed
arrested flows
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VI
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Disruptive time
tears the tongue
of Ouroboros
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VII
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Wood and water
time stored flows
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Storage vessels
of city dreaming?
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VIII
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Time passed
time remembered
the time of now
a time to come
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Elemental time
a quiet creation;
In process
a living roof.
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Time stacked
seasons circles.
Stored memories – of
sun
the wind
rain
the saw.
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Now playing: Marilyn Crispell / Gary Peacock / Paul Motion – Nothing ever was, anyway. Music of Annette Peacock.
kaah………….k
aah.. k a a h
..kaah .. .kaah
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….kaah….k….kaah
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at the highest point,
a building? a parliament?
a clamour of rooks?
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Coryphaeus, chorus, and
huddled conversations
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Corvus chants
beak and feather
chatter, songs of
earth and sky
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“Out of all of them, it has been the corvids, the rook, magpie and crow, who have altered for ever my relationship to the rest of the world, altered my view of a hierarchy of form, intellect, ability; my concept of time”.
Esther Woolfson, Corvus: A Life with Birds
Now playing: Bert Jansch – Twa Corbies
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Now playing: Thomas Köner – ‘Meta Incognita’ from Permafrost.
Murdo Eason - From Hill to Sea 
