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MaryAb
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What is “The Edge” about?
I have been reflecting on the four enquiries I have undertaken in the last decade. My first enquiry was into the experience of fear –...
A rainy morning
If there is perception, there is self and other – that which perceives and that which is perceived. In exploring my theme of being on...
The place I sit at the edge of the woods
This is a place I love to sit – on an ash tree at the edge of Barley Valley woods. One of its two trunks...
At the edge of the woods
I look up to see the way ash leaves tremble in the slightest breeze. A wood pigeon lands on a thin branch at the top...
What is happening on the edge between one place and another?
I have experienced the sense of being on the edge, or being between, neither one thing/place nor another, much of my life. Growing up, I...
The Pleasure of Drowning
I heard the dancer and choreographer, Akram Khan, use the phrase “the pleasure of drowning” in a talk he gave recently. Like an arrow, it went...
Perishable
More than one person picked out the phrase “perishable beauty” from my What is Left poem, and I have been musing on the term “perishable”. ...
What is Left? – an experience of Covid-19
I am aware I am “lucky” that my experience of the Covid-19 virus was not worse. I could have ended up in hospital, on a...