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The Hidden Mouth

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The last time I went looking for dragons and wrote of it here, it was early spring. There was a sense of decayed things emerging, then being overgrown, sublimated into green watercress. This time it’s winter, things are buried. The snow has come. It came late this year, the time …

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Jake Powning •December 27, 2012Musings art, eastern coyote, forest, Peter Johnsson, ravine, snow, sword geometry, tracks, winter, winter sostice, wolf

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

Dark Hollow

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    The forest king’s son hides in plain sight, the colour of dry spruce bark and fallen needles. How long must the spruce tree and frog have lived side by side to match each other’s skins?  Down by the dry August riverbed, in the dark hollow, tree stumps watch …

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Jake Powning •August 11, 2012Musings forest, forest spirit, frog, late summer, trees
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