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133 lines
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4 years ago
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# holding spell {.hidden}
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we share a rich vocabulary; us. \
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we can speak of \
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broad skies and magnitudes, \
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the sound of a blown voice, \
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through a horn softly \
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on a hill far away, \
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of magnetite swathes \
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and sparks so sharp, \
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they can be felt by grazing a little finger. \
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we can speak of things that \
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when we don’t feel strong, we think about \
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and of things that \
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when we want to feel strong, we think about. \
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little animals, small and quiet and shivering \
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caressed but \
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suspended \
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by the tips of whiskers only air. \
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when we speak, noses twitching \
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it can be of \
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separateness, discreteness \
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the spaces between circles \
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overlapped, but still holding \
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we can multiply interpretations, \
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and brace against their weight \
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or \
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we can scoop up abundance \
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and bathe lightly. \
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throats, quivering, sound like cold or terror \
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but they too ask, whether the circles \
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are organisms micro-vibrating \
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with the energy it takes \
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to realise squelchy new forms \
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to absorb: experience grows the self grows autonomy \
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by care and love into the blood. \
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our expanding throats \
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stickily coated with the outside, \
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wonder \
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whether us-as-earth, will shift magnetic poles again \
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as we did recently \
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780,000 years ago \
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well, not within my living memory but \
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maybe within ours. \
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it’s comforting that a polar shift might mean no more \
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to glottises \
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than huffing in the wet brown mulch from the forest floor; \
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yelling in bluebells until we laugh \
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is anyway more accessible and soothing. \
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to you, the piece of my bruised heart: \
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that bright lodged glint \
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is your intelligence \
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equal to all winds it bends against \
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think of it like a tinder mushroom - \
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cupped, it can keep you warm \
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and light many fires along the way \
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when we loudly open ourselves without \
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insides \
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the world rushes in \
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unbidden even \
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but making calm salve \
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by making ourselves space \
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avoids projection. \
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when we speak, let’s not speak \
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about identity \
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no -isms or -nesses, \
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just about sheltering \
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the trembling creatures, we are \
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just about protecting \
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the vulnerability in our voices. \
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that belief, in self-knowledge \
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might even allow \
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ample vibrant exchange, iron fizzing, \
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something like a conversation between \
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million year old magnetic traces found inside a tenth of a millimetre of rock \
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and a magnetometer \
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in the key of hysteresis \
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this vocabulary we share, \
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made of hard and soft sounds \
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of silences \
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and recurrences \
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(i won’t lie) \
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has lashed at times, \
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and whipped us round \
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but it has also gifted us \
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cycles of growth \
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and non-linear narratives \
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comfortably spiky creations \
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and exuberant wide worlds; \
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so now \
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when we speak, intertwined, \
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i’m grateful for all those words \
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that bind and support us \
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leaning back away from another, \
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onto each other, \
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overlapped but holding, still.
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