Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Dave Borthwick
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good solstice to you, folks, if that's yr thing
Dave Borthwick
& dusktime all that is luminous is vapour in the air the land dark & waterlogged sounds of gurgle & suck 1 tiny windblown leaf badged to the door of yr car
(way back, beneath gales of song, a grasshopper warbler trills insectchatter from avian)
fragment John Burnside, 'Taxonomy', The Light Trap (2002), p. 6. the neighbour's in-by, sky SW darkening with rain
& evening light all day, nets of rain widening & narrowing their mesh - near midsummer, time of elderflower (spires of foxglove indicate width of the lane through windscreen smear), the willow through window shows the undersides of their leaves, shivers off cling of water
Dave Borthwick
& over the road all day - where lines loop above a field of dips & rises - a silaging team was chased by a promise of rain that by gloaming had not arrived - a 2nd cut in, then, & a park empty as an echo
Dave Borthwick
you follow heron habits, meeting where the light levels to stare at reflections on water & what moves across it (little grebe smuggles at least 1 passenger past) - raspberries are on the way & dogrose in full flower 1/2
Dave Borthwick
Dave Borthwick
Dave Borthwick
flags of bogcotton in a breeze that kept most insects from rallying to gather, heath spotted orchid 2/2
journey with lag enough for sidequest into bogland - whinchat & diving beetles, common lizards basking, 1/2
