Absent - A Graham Wood Digital Print

A1 or A2 digital print on 240gsm watercolour paper.

Absent

Absent a line between:
out far so far far beyond sounding fathoms,
no colour to describe nor form to hold:
a limit unlimited and liminal,
faint glowing from paledark to less:
a surface beneath which:
shifts and shades and vibrations within,
under,
through:
a pebble beach,
yellow buoy,
almost cold,
mostly grey,
and I wonder about a thing –
something that is whole and can be held perhaps,
comprehended,
a beginning a middle an end –
 
something like a story
(spasms, damage, injury, almost recovery, change),
but that has no end –
is filled with possibility,
like the first inkling of a thought,
communion,
no-self,
flow,
something always different performed in ritual circle,
called,
conjured,
scryed:
a crow,
black and silent,
lands.
A stop.
 
All these greys become rubine.
An error in the vein:
the trouble with blood.
When it clots.
Supernova.
A twist in the smile.
Strange aches.
A story about feeling better than before.
How the land stretches out and away fading from house and house to shape to line to grey.
How in this imaginary thing
(where there is no centre only us)
of solidity and air there is everything and more there is healing.