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    Air Histories
    Air Histories
    Air Histories
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    Air Histories

    By Christopher Meredith

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    Christopher Meredith’s Air Histories starts in the Stone Age and ends in the future. It’s marked by formal diversity and a wide range of subjects, with the personal alongside the impersonal and the experimental alongside well-known forms, including some translations from the Welsh. Throughout, it engages the rich meanings of its title, touching on the elemental and on historical time, as well as music and story, meditating on human creativity and its fallibilities. Gorgeous and original descriptions of nature in Wales are also prominently featured, particularly the Black Mountains, near the author’s home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeren
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781781720769
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      Air Histories - Christopher Meredith

      Notes

      Arrowhead

      fire

      unlock

      ed the mou

      ntain and rain

      and wind brush

      ed earth by to strip

      to air what’s reified

      in stone, green double

      wavelets in a piece of sea

      jade flatfish swimming time

      a hardening of fallen sky that

      should whisper death or meat but

      somehow can’t becoming something

      never meant in all the patient knapping

      to perfected brittle symmetry strange midair

      fingerprint stone cursor pointing to this hour

      flint promise of our later fire that never

      flew or sang till

      now

      Borderland

      Ffin is the Welsh for border. It occurs inside diffiniad

      which means definition, and in Capel y Ffin, a place

      in the Black Mountains.

      You’ll find a ffin inside each definition.

      We see what is when we see what it’s not:

      edges are where meanings happen.

      On the black whaleback of this mountain

      earth curves away so sky can start

      to show a ffin’s a kind of definition

      where skylarks climb across earth’s turn

      to air and pulsing muscle turns to an artful

      song the edge that lets a meaning happen.

      Live rock can yield to mortared stone,

      a city to a castle, then a shepherd’s hut,

      where ffin’s contained inside a definition,

      where the lithic turns into the human.

      Here’s where things fall together, not apart

      at edges that let meanings happen.

      And self here blurs into annihilation.

      Larkfall, earthfall, skyfall, manfall each create

      the ffin that is the place of definition

      the edges where we see our meanings happen.

      Trees on Castell Dinas

      Stripped to their themes

      the winter trees

      are the sum of their seasons

      bombbursts of filaments

      in pulsing harmonics

      enact their contentions in air

      work into eyesight

      with ogive writhing

      invisible veins of the wind

      solidify rhythms

      into the pathways

      of hunger for light

      What earth thought

      When wind blows to kill rain, earth

      thinks warmer under sun and breathes

      smoke. Grass squeezes out of stone,

      walks under tree and over mountain.

      Man walks with animals under moon.

      Dog drinks lake. Child sucks woman.

      Child sleeps with smell of milk and woman

      who sings to call the seed from earth.

      Man sings to beasts. Dog sings to moon.

      They turn their hunger into breath.

      They walk the belly of the mountain.

      They hit the yellow fire from stone.

      And what swells in grass, with stone

      and stone they kill. The woman

      burns seed under mountain.

      They laugh it out from blackened

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