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Sky in breadth but no range in store, moreover there are trees\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0narrow assistant<\/p>\n
tallness, poplars wedge a sky\u2019s suspense<\/p>\n
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As skies drum onto land they bounce off horizon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the shock is trees absorbing<\/p>\n
(rescaling) the derision<\/p>\n
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find adjacent<\/span><\/p>\n filter: one telescopic<\/span><\/p>\n flown speck is<\/span><\/p>\n another haven<\/span><\/p>\n speckled<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n earliest ascension<\/span><\/p>\n was sky in trunk,<\/span><\/p>\n not yet peeling<\/span><\/p>\n the earth<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n from one spurt<\/span><\/p>\n (foliage) to another,<\/span><\/p>\n the hurt is sky<\/span><\/p>\n not yet in grain<\/span><\/p>\n for launch<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Headless stalks are no better prickles before windowless sky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0streak it along a<\/p>\n tree\u2019s brushway for actual take-off<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rarely at any world-search, the sky flies through it\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0then dived to see how<\/p>\n wingless in leaf it was<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All over brief earth the heavens are secondary soil\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0trees assist it with aileron, one<\/p>\n flap a no longer grounded rotor<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Curtained round mute shell, a thin fusilage from disaster\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0wingless before the<\/p>\n heavens\u2019 own dispelling fabric<\/p>\n <\/p>\n tenting its<\/span><\/p>\n ground, the forest<\/span><\/p>\n frets itself<\/span><\/p>\n vertical, no sheer<\/span><\/p>\n skyplay then<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n let sky waters pre-<\/span><\/p>\n serve a forest\u2019s<\/span><\/p>\n own tidal<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n sky-dismantled<\/span><\/p>\n oak moving like<\/span><\/p>\n a tuft of cloud<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A lesser into flight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0woodland perfections obtain the poor-floor of that soaring<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Havens at corner-stops, struts for any sky-bearing flight\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0nurtured surfaces on<\/p>\n universal glide<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Woodland mirage of terrestrial fluttering\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0only quiet roots become aligned with<\/p>\n their hollow gutters, strict matters of sky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adversary skies not accusative but resort to nominal forest\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0innocent of material<\/p>\n they cloak a sum of horizon which lets leaf risk them over:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shelter by traversal<\/p>\n threads<\/p>\n <\/p>\n forest haven<\/span><\/p>\n grows ravenous<\/span><\/p>\n unless it taper<\/span><\/p>\n sky off a body<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n a warren of trees<\/span><\/p>\n least queasy<\/span><\/p>\n barrenness from<\/span><\/p>\n digesting sky<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n until the crowns<\/span><\/p>\n tilt (disenmesh)<\/span><\/p>\n what they rotate<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tree a living abject readily overflown\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0or a comet to a bush, hovers the gloom it<\/p>\n expels<\/p>\n <\/p>\n New clouds over fusiform hurdles, only a sky could leap this wooded recession<\/p>\n lift from the attrition but never become its own vehicle<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carbon bunches reseeding the sun across its sky semi-dust\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0haven flotsam<\/p>\n preinjected at tree level<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unhoused in air but as free forest afloat\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0skies of adjacency no longer trivial<\/p>\n dispensers overhead<\/p>\n <\/p>\n not yet a tall<\/span><\/p>\n bend in forest,<\/span><\/p>\n does make us<\/span><\/p>\n twist (not test)<\/span><\/p>\n the heavens<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n unclotted sky<\/span><\/p>\n new woodland<\/span><\/p>\n rinses it<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n less abutment<\/span><\/p>\n above unless<\/span><\/p>\n excerpted<\/span><\/p>\n in trees<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The fleeting bearing of tree sessions (seasons) breeding (swooping) the sky:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let it<\/p>\n be in loft<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Vertebrae by which the heavens flock back to themselves\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0not instructed but<\/p>\n trusted on distended root<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A woodland will sow steep pasture (sky) along its after-root summits<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A ridge bristling in spruce\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0needles massed against weightless flight in what<\/p>\n propagates (turbo-vents)\u00a0positions<\/em>\u00a0of flight<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hovering like a no longer reeling beyond\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0betweenness mid-sky, granted its<\/p>\n horizontal graduals of ascent<\/p>\n <\/p>\n air-worthy in<\/span><\/p>\n festoon, tree<\/span><\/p>\n mass dissolves<\/span><\/p>\n cloud morass<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n if predominance<\/span><\/p>\n of air then domes<\/span><\/p>\n of forest, commons<\/span><\/p>\n in steepage<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n launch (lunge)<\/span><\/p>\n its span, filter-<\/span><\/p>\n wards to<\/span><\/p>\n horizon<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Where trees are hooded they parachute a sky gate-crashing earth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0at which<\/p>\n uncrowned heavens billow out again<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Horizon as carrier (encounter) will encircle only as forest pressed lobes to the sky<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peter Larkin contributed to\u00a0The Ground Aslant: an<\/em>\u00a0Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo<\/em>\u00a0(2011). He has published several poetry collections; among the more recent are\u00a0City Trappings (Housing Heath or Wood)<\/em>\u00a0in 2016 and\u00a0Introgression Latewood<\/em>\u00a0in late 2017.\u00a0\u00a0A symposium on his work was held at Warwick U (UK) in 2018, the proceedings to appear in the\u00a0Journal of British & Irish Innovative<\/em>\u00a0Poetry<\/em>. A new collection,\u00a0Trees Before<\/em>\u00a0Abstinent Ground<\/em>\u00a0was published in late 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Skies in Flight of Tree, 1-5 1 Sky in breadth but no range in store, moreover there are trees\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0narrow assistant tallness, poplars wedge a sky\u2019s suspense As skies drum onto land they bounce off horizon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the shock is trees absorbing (rescaling) the derision find adjacent filter: one telescopic flown speck is another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[55,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/skull-for-J-box-5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1tw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}