Busybusy couple of weeks starting with a stimulating and eclectic weekend of Performance Writing at Arnolfini, Bristol, and then ten days in Shetland, where landsounds and seaskylife make indelible marks:
SKY
massiveness
cloud encompassing grey white towering blue bright lowering silverlight darkening compassionless gullflecked
changeling wind whipping gusting whispering still gripping taunting singing
PEE-wit-wit-wit infinite
imprisoning sunrain intimidating sleethail shapeshifting snowshadowing
vast
wonder full kitiwakekitiwakekitiwake
thermalwinged screech ascend higherhigher to swoop dive through sprayscent
a detail insignificant a matchbox airplane rides rodeo
LAND
stubborn chin jutting
layered
retreating
defiant in isolate peat promontory
fire lava millennia brown peat scree stream stone heather lone tree grassgreening settlers sheep working obstinate pony lamb crofter communicating
invadestroyers
peat smoke gripping forcing wall broch home clearance
ruinSurvival
fiddling melody bowing dancing corbie laverock draatsie trow
horizon wandering fence poles peat tractor rabbit with tattie musical oo
bonxie maalies plivver weaving dialect naming enduring LAND
SEA
NorthwatersAtlantic surgesurroundings glitterintently mergingsubsoundings
driftingoffoaming wavespray upthunder
gripping white gullcliff marinate harbour tangling migrants shaping with seaweed
sand pebble shellpool urchin crab scallop
islands to islets skerries and ferries
causeway with ropenets voesounds oil rhythm
tankerandfishboatandcruiseshiproundrockstacks
musselkelpselkiefishpottedlobster
houselightbyinkbluearchguardedbybrigdi
maali da seacraas minke returning
AtlantictakesNorthsalt surgessubsoundings glitterintently mergingsurroundings
waves spray up thunder foaming then drifting
