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Into the West

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I wake after dozing and for a moment the raindrop crawling sideways across the window is a sleep-blurred nonsense. Below I see the crumpled mountain world of the Rockies folding into the Sierra Nevadas. I look over lakes of salt and brown jagged emptiness and imagine what it must have …

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Jake Powning •November 3, 2013Musings axe, hammerin, iron age, migration period, sax, seax, smith moot, Viking Age

Mushrooms and an Axe

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It’s as if the mushrooms’ folded world has its own colour spectrum, warm and dark; brown, orange, red and yellow, a shiver of green in the darkness of a decaying log. Trees curve over the steep valley, grey barked, zigzagging the distant sky. This is a house of trees, earth …

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Jake Powning •November 15, 2012Musings autumn, axe, birch, dane axe, forest, hornbeam, horse logging, mushrooms, seax, viking, Viking Age, wood
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