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T(here)
EDGE DWELLERS There is nothing as beautiful as the sadness of one who is blind in Granada. Spanish proverb
There is an Irish poet in love with landscape who believes that thresholds are sacred places places where one reality bleeds into another from forest melting into dune spilling onto beach drifting into ocean magical spiritual places and if there ever was a magical threshold it is t(here) on Cape Cod this poet also says that a great journey needs plenty of time it should not be rushed I use t(here) because travel always involves a there but it is here where I am wishing for wanderlust but alas I am trapped happily here standing on a threshold thinking I’ll go t(here) and take a very long journey a trip that takes a lot of time maybe two years but I won't rush it I’ve never travelled for two years straight but what the hell I've taken the first steps onto the road now the one that’s right outside my door a road that stitches the big old once ocean filled twice-a-day flooded now dammed and choke cherry filled
Ferns Emerging
Ferns unravel along the roadmarsh to the solid land of the hollows and locusts and wild wintergreen the bees buzzing through the newly opened threshold flowers and leaves bursting splitting wrinkled shriveled like new born wet babies fiddlehead ferns unfurling and there’s a symphony of redwings and at night if you walk it under a full moon you will certainly scare up a deer because they are out t(here) in the thickets and I plan to wear out a few pairs of threshold shoes before this trip is done because there will be berries lots of berries t(here) in August.
"When you see the limit not as a confining barrier but as a threshold, you are already beyond." John O'Donahue
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