Wet Wind
22/11/09 23:45
Up past Burrator and miserable dripping Princetown to
the carpark beyond Merrivale, five rooks hopping and
bobbing in the misty drizzle on the grass. Drive
through the streaming water across the moor to
Hexworthy, the West Dart river running chestnut brown
ripple, coffee chocolate with vanilla foaming veins;
then Venford reservoir where there are waves and the
Victorian road bridge across the dam is flooded. Home
via Holne, Coombe and Buckfastleigh; a fierce wind
gusting, with a proper old-fashioned man in the moon,
a sky-white crescent swinging down to the south west
horizon.
Two photos of the moon in cloud just over the top of Dogman’s roof on May Terrace: I stand on the paving by the pond and hold the camera up above next door’s garage roof. I capture the streetlight in the back lane and a light fuzz of a clouded moon. Long exposures with arms outstretched: the camera uterus, light reflected into the black box recorder through its aperture, fingers an inverted image upon the wall of the dark chamber.
Two photos of the moon in cloud just over the top of Dogman’s roof on May Terrace: I stand on the paving by the pond and hold the camera up above next door’s garage roof. I capture the streetlight in the back lane and a light fuzz of a clouded moon. Long exposures with arms outstretched: the camera uterus, light reflected into the black box recorder through its aperture, fingers an inverted image upon the wall of the dark chamber.