Meanwhile, Bryony Hart's fantastic 'River' exercise led to some creative responses:
Kate Rees' artistic evocation of a river from childhood memory:
The Imprint of Water
I followed the river
older than I was when I was here before
I was there and not there
within and without
gazing through a liminal gauze
which stopped me
pushing through my arms
to the girl in the river
-balancing on round, cool stones
smiling delightedly at the dragonflies-
pushing through my arms to tell her
‘stay there, stay here’
and they were there too
my ghosts made flesh
younger than me
a hand held, a kiss murmuringly given alongside
the murmuring river
their hands my hands, the land their land, my land,
the river moving
to the sea
my bones and my blood
reaching towards me
and then gone
endlessly gone to the sea
Bryony Hart's representation of a sinuous river in a bucolic setting:
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