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Published on
17 December 2016

passage / south downs way / part one



“Listen closely...

the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on."


Kerouak

Published on
17 December 2016

passage / south downs way / part two



“Secrets, silent, stony, sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts:

secrets weary of their tyranny"


Joyce



Published on
4 December 2016

meander / mill gill / north yorkshire



"Its darkness under roots, under old flood-battered boles

Was dark as blood,

Rusty peaty blood-dark, old-blood dark.

Something evil about the sunken river

In its sick-bed darkness."


Hughes

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Published on
24 November 2016

passage / brimham moor



"Autumn darkness 

                descends

 on this road I travel 

                                 alone"

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 Basho

Published on
24 November 2016

glimpse / brimham rocks



"As flowing waters disappear into the mist

 we lose all track of their passage."


 Shih-shu

Published on
20 November 2016

meander / ashridge



“Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.”


​Banville

Published on
12 November 2016

glimpse / inis oírr



"Did sea define the land or land the sea?

 Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision."

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Heaney

Published on
30 October 2016

meander / batch wood



"No song,  just a thin mad whisper...."


Hughes

Published on
23 October 2016

passage / 48 hours / dartmoor



“Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors."

Cornwall

Published on
13 October 2016

interlude / lasa



"The dark does not destroy the light;  it defines it."


​Brown


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