sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2015-05-24 05:50 pm

Coins duller than carp scales, empty wells of ink

I feel like I've found the sequel to U.A. Fanthorpe's "Rising Damp": Marianna Burton, "The River Flowing Under the Bank of England Dreams of Power."

I am listening to shipwreck songs from [livejournal.com profile] ladymondegreen. Looking up the history behind James Taylor's "The Frozen Man" led me to Sheenagh Pugh's "Envying Owen Beattie" and thence to the poem above. Jo Bell's "Doggerland" engages in a similar way with time (and water), which is one of the reasons I like it best of the recent climate change series. It reminds me of Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways (2012).

My mental state reverted to terrible around two o'clock in the morning, but I have had cats asleep on my lap for most of the afternoon, which is worth something.