Notes from the Red Moss, 2 June 2023
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stillness on the Red Moss
and flax almost adrift
in soft peat:
from lint holes, the memory
of sunbeam on sundew
and a thousand thousand blues above
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jade mounds in bracken, stumps,
lighten
lighten but never
still, always different, ever
the same—
the sun on metal hexagons
on wooden walkways
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looking to Bavelaw
in the lee of Hare Hill
I think of Stanley Roger Green
searching for that unfound cairn
while Threipmuir glitters
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in scenes from a stillway
of pinecone and feather
can I be dappled
by light, by trees?
a trunk's bend and
branch's oscillation
a hoverfly lands on this nearly white page
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[words and images from a morning walk through the Red Moss of Balerno nature reserve at the foot of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, and then along the shore of Threipmuir Reservoir, Friday 2 June 2023.].