{"id":6892,"date":"2021-11-15T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6892"},"modified":"2021-11-16T21:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:54:51","slug":"peter-larkin-engladings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6892\/peter-larkin-engladings\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Larkin: Engladings"},"content":{"rendered":"

These poems are loosely derived from the Welsh englyn penfyr<\/em>, traditionally involving a stanza of 3 lines, the first with 10 syllables, the second with 5-6 and the third with 7. I have more basically and less fleetly substituted a word-count for the syllabics and forgot the second line was intended to be at least one syllable shorter, so my pattern is a line of 10 words followed by two of seven. One poem goes for a fourth line. Some of the contributory material is filtered through translations provided by Francesco Benozzi in his excellent Landscape Perception in Early Celtic Literature<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n

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Engladings (Englynion)\u00a0 [extract]<\/p>\n

1<\/p>\n

Never a settled stance at enhancing unless the hills petition:
\nafter preaching sedentary green to the island
\ngreener thirst of any chance-pliant plant<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

Tree to a lunge is how an element switches ground,
\nswatches (of lean-to) have been to
\nthe conicals of its swaddling the rebound<\/p>\n

3<\/p>\n

Soils, why so green-come, took colours off steep winter?
\nLong haunches, time grows a petulant green
\nover pale yewtrees, a transform hunch-steady<\/p>\n

4<\/p>\n

Discrete horizons press on concrete continua, not thrown over, just
\nan unspilt at being so given over,
\nocean feathering the off-flutter of land<\/p>\n

5<\/p>\n

Brave tackle very rod, shapely bidden, well-hidden in shrift:
\nspindle and juniper chariots of natural act,
\nhow prayer is upcast pith and arm<\/p>\n

6<\/p>\n

Tempo as topology glides tuitions or advisory entrussments onto<\/em> space,
\nreckoning the durational undertow of middle things,
\nhow an unremoved bough creates new attributes<\/p>\n

7<\/p>\n

Does present a towards of the sampled, examples para-representative:
\nforwarding assent is tall secondary miracle,
\nperforated stare of leaf agency simple adjacency<\/p>\n

8<\/p>\n

Landscape its whole crescent slice of beseech, one beech each:
\nor at times by a token oak,
\nits rarest foil so nearly above holly<\/p>\n

9<\/p>\n

Tree-grapple any assault is accustomed to bring: despite place
\nwish that some cording fleck its tag,
\nscarce then but not serried in arrears<\/p>\n

10<\/p>\n

Lets conceal what resigns bare to the chest of seed,
\nthe stewarding will foster many muffled alerts,
\nin proportions of shallows where it dabbles<\/p>\n

11<\/p>\n

As spun off should be neighbours, rare to the full:
\nwinds sweep offbelt the sack thickening woods,
\nbespeaks a carrier not gone upon expedition<\/p>\n

12<\/p>\n

Remission at the nape of branch, defray contention: hazel adjudges
\nit suspensive (new attentions) of the conflict,
\ndispense bracken and broom from general turnout<\/p>\n

13<\/p>\n

Notables of the stood, common tree (accessioning) oils the bowl,
\nsmooths a final sprawl of woodland shafts,
\nretire spike and enrol ancient horny trees<\/p>\n

14<\/p>\n

Compressive braces in tree-cutting, ivied hazel the only hospital,
\natones in immature commotion, as evasive undergrowth
\nwill sound immune ringing of parted forest<\/p>\n

15<\/p>\n

Freest of all counter-slippages from removal, penalty of lopping
\nis these targeted limbs, larger reversionary adhesions
\nscarce as every risen distraught series was<\/p>\n

16<\/p>\n

Ripe fruit safeguards bushes, whose palisade is juice converting raid.
\nAlder ahead of lime, piecing its firsts,
\nivy pure respite in seeking an appearance<\/p>\n

17<\/p>\n

Tree toward passage inclines every cancelled sheath of its return:
\none drift in midst (sift) of leaves,
\nsurges and dormancies, for purges and normalcies<\/p>\n

18<\/p>\n

Operative stasis not oasis but full standing at relational take:
\nhere settled (adjacently whittled) as believe periderm
\nreceives it, pouch of tree announce implication<\/p>\n

19<\/p>\n

Linkage heeds branched texture, foliage fetched, a rift in a
\nrib in raft of receiving, low-pressure
\nemphatics, at local crook its own unsawn<\/p>\n

20<\/p>\n

Pilot of the shaded decoy, limbed from hill to hill,
\nalong the stoppages (spiral strappage brief mending)
\nof a wood which ridges bail out<\/p>\n

21<\/p>\n

Green waves freshly cut (float) where a flood is due,
\ndiving then the scan of imbued horizons,
\nprompts a coast for shore of oak<\/p>\n

22<\/p>\n

Woods a without of effort, woods a within of effect,
\nthat safe core rinds before it climbs,
\ncavities of thicket hollow in field density<\/p>\n

23<\/p>\n

Congealed branching wounds in one, thorns those are my palms:
\nover-stretching woods congregate green-teamed, as
\nmuch abroad as any grievance of shelter<\/p>\n

24<\/p>\n

Diagonal hands rear a branch-time\u2019s durational escapement, locally collapses
\ninfolds cut from the delay of it,
\nwhat outswing curtails for a covered slope<\/p>\n

25<\/p>\n

Less post-reductive originals but a scarcer conduct of gift,
\nevery common rarity each such sponsored horizon,
\nprayer in slender depth result sprung from<\/p>\n

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Peter Larkin contributed to The Ground Aslant: an<\/em> Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry, ed. Harriet Tarlo<\/em> (2011). Among his more recent poetry collections are Trees Before<\/em> Abstinent Ground<\/em> (Shearsman, 2019) and Encroach to Resume<\/em>(Shearsman, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n

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