everything starts in the middle  by Elizabeth Anne Godwi

Godwin, Elizabeth Anne

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The Goose Volume 18 Number 2 Article 42 10-15-2020 everything starts in the middle Elizabeth Anne Godwin University of Wales Aberystwyth  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Follow this and additional works at / Suivez-nous ainsi que d’autres travaux et œuvres: https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée Godwin, Elizabeth A.. "everything starts in the middle." The Goose, vol. 18 , no. 2 , article 42, 2020, https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol18/iss2/42. This article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Goose by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact scholarscommons@wlu.ca. Cet article vous est accessible gratuitement et en libre accès grâce à Scholars Commons @ Laurier. Le texte a été approuvé pour faire partie intégrante de la revue The Goose par un rédacteur autorisé de Scholars Commons @ Laurier. Pour de plus amples informations, contactez scholarscommons@wlu.ca. Everything Starts in the Middle   narrow bands of houses become wire fences studded with fleece then salt flecked roadside thrift splashed in on sea-rolled tyres bright with summertime mapping the verges of these March roads  strange to think of the web of lives  out here beyond the reach of the urban hub where darkness means something other than immaculate neon   the rain is darker here giant hogweed umbrellas of Chinese emperors silver this Ordovician darkness a  moon holds itself bruised against sky and though stars flare, nothing is safe despite a muffle of oaks raftering all that is creaturely and the air lying green with aniseed  more houses  the road runs on to the coast   others have already disappeared   the weather  different from the half remembered land of flitter-moth and amorous bee their notes fragile now     like violins made of frost  rimes filmy and delicate hang about last year's roses roads and air streaked with the fume and iridescence of oil delete the things we half remember    mollyblobs    kingfishers    all surrendered   or barely alive in places reserved for nature  1Godwin: everything starts in the middlePublished by / Publié par Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2020a passing watchfulness and remembrance of moths reminds that what we face is the malice of fields of rotting rape  a writing we could have known emerges from behind time dishevelled trees   a hand forged chain-link fence loops on holding on to crockeries of blossom and lost nicknames    twitch, quitch, quack and scutch  things we fail to see the imagined woods    near at hand                            2The Goose, Vol. 18, No. 2 [2020], Art. 42https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol18/iss2/42DR. ELIZABETH JARDINE GODWIN’s creative and critical work is concerned with the effects of landscape, building and memory, and considers the manner in which built structures cause us to interact with the environment in particular ways. Her poetry collection and poems: ells Tin- tern Pwllpeiran, Wan Under Wolan and The Walled Garden, engage with environmental “other- liness” and the historical significance of landscape to investigate what this nexus can tell us about how contemporary readers and users of landscape experience their ongoing relationship with built and unbuilt landscapes. The importance of water and light in shaping one’s sense of architecture and the ecology of place is also a focus of her research and creative practice.   3Godwin: everything starts in the middlePublished by / Publié par Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2020

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