Week one brought a nice collection of New Year pieces. So, onwards!
For Week 2 Jo Bell suggests tackling the journey. It's a time of year when many people will be returning to work, rejoining the old familiar commute. The suggestion is that you take that, or another familiar journey, and depict it as it might be seen through fresh eyes.
You might be tempted to make the journey specifically for this purpose. I'd recommend that. And the type of journey, or how you make it, is entirely up to you.
The accompanying poem, Desire Lines, might not seem to fit those guidelines, but, hey, guidelines are for transgressing!
Desire Lines by Matt Merritt
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Drought or drench draw them more clearly,
teach the secret geometry of hidden
or half-arsed purpose. For Each
ribbon of rained-on intent,
tramped-down meander of resolve
that hardens into lane or jitty,
or even city street, another ten
remain as freehand scrawls, scribbles
at best, the chords and tangents
of long-forgotten arcs. A season's growth
softens edges, a work-crew and a one-off budget
tame the snake in the grass, or divide head
from tail, but a few days of scorching sun,
a week of winter, can reunite both
or sharpen the top-down perspective,
until each waste-ground's a history
of every passing idea and impulse, half-buried, half-
realised, but still being dreamed.
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