A Grey Day
I met my friend Polly for lunch at Bryn Williams https://portheirias.com/ . A grey day I need a shave from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3Dl0Yyo
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Poem
The outer side of Ranu Raraku crater where the moai statues were created In the autumn of 2009 when I visited Easter Island, Chile and western Argentina, I kept a diary. Had I read it in the last twelve years? I don't think so but today I dipped into it and about thirty pages in I discovered that I had attempted a poem while staying on the island. Twelve years later I have reworked it slightly and given it a little spit and polish while retaining the sense that it was "of the moment" - inspired by being there on one of the remotest inhabited specks of land on the entire planet. Here it is:- Rapa Nui With such certainty The stone adze struck Unyielding tuff. Sometimes the carvers Would wipe their brows And survey the line Drawn where ocean met sky. Way beyond it, Chinese potters made exquisite vessels, Aztecs built Tenochtitlan, Egyptians immortalised the Nile And America sat unknown.But here on the slopes Of Ranu Raraku They chipped away Day by d...