“I want to work out what it’s like to descend

 out of the dawn’s mind

and find a leaf and fasten the known to the unknown

with a liquid cufflink" (not for the faint hearted Floating Downriver ...)

Alice Oswald's Natural Terrors - The New Yorker

There are a few poems and lines that stood out for MEdia Dragons:
A Short Story of Falling: “It is the secret of a summer shower / to steal the light and hide it in a flower”
Fox: “My life / is laid beneath my children / like gold leaf”
Shadow: "It is faint / it has been falling for a long time"

Sunday Ballard: As they dressed the dust / flew white and silent through the house”

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A Short Story of Falling

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It is the story of the falling rain
to turn into a leaf and fall again

it is the secret of a summer shower
to steal the light and hide it in a flower

and every flower a tiny tributary
that from the ground flows green and momentary

is one of water's wishes and this tale
hangs in a seed-head smaller than my thumbnail

if only I a passerby could pass
as clear as water through a plume of grass

to find the sunlight hidden at the tip
turning to seed a kind of lifting rain drip

then I might know like water how to balance
the weight of hope against the light of patience

water which is so raw so earthy-strong
and lurks in cast-iron tanks and leaks along

drawn under gravity towards my tongue
to cool and fill the pipe-work of this song

which is the story of the falling rain
that rises to the light and falls again

Alice Oswald, "A Short Story of Falling" from Falling Awake


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