Filmpoem 48 / Arctica - by
‘Arctica’ is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
‘Arctica’ is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
Arctica is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
Arctica is a triptych by Alastair Cook, commissioned by poet Stevie Ronnie.
ice-burned tongues / clump into celestine’s / eye-blue spar
The horse won’t know how its metatarsal
/ can be whittled by friction with the lake,
/ how the act of skating is part…
The year goes, the woods decay, and after,
many a summer dies. The swan
on Bingham’s pond, a ghost, comes and goes.
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/ chan eil mi nad aghaidh a thaistealair ghil
/ tha thu ruith tro mo chuislean mar…
Players, humped as oxen, brood in boxes;
/ One by one stumble from their cages
/ (Lift of gulls, swing and loop and lag
/ And…
Who doesn’t know I come from Rastušje
/ And went to school in Podvinje?…
/
/ A winter’s morning. Frost.
/ I’m walking alone from the village.
/ Passing…
A single quaver
of loosening ice
extends across the silence,
revives the air
with the almost forgotten song
of snow melting to water