Kindling in the Metters: Water in the Pot
Kindling in the Metters
Kindling in the Metters is firing the pot
The steam is rising through the grill
The pot is alive
Who could have thought
that a steaming pot could fire the inspiration
for a steam train, then an airliner
and space ship -
Steam so speaks of invisible thoughts,
of forces born in the embers of wood, water and fire
where air speaks of earth’s strongest desire
that courses
through her veins; higher and higher.
posted by McCabeandco @ 9:32 PM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Tim, I just read your previous post about the Gap. You might be interested that I am doing my arts/philosophy doctorate about the Gap. You are right, it has a dark energy and I have been grappling with it for 4 years now but the struggle has been revelatory.
I know of your gap affiliations. I am interested in that revelatory knowledge you speak of, for perhaps my fears of that place might lessen. I don't know. But how is this gap tied to the human actions and endings at other places similar? The Sydney Gap...what allows people to do the unthinkable... what lures them into what for me could only be an action of madness. Something, or someone is singing their tune and under a spell they move... and fall into the abyss... what do you know of this tune... who is doing the singing...?? Does this place lend itself to this effect in the human pcyhe or do we humans, thankfully the few of us only hear the 'singing' when disturbed?
I think you are right. I have heard it 'singing', and felt it pulling. Yes, this place certainly does have a particular effect on the psyche and there are perfectly good reasons for that. My observation is that many people who go there feel that pull. And it is a type of 'madness' to listen, or at least act on it, but the people who do, do so for very good reasons. Maybe not reasons other people would accept or recognise, but it will all be in my thesis. I haven't completely formulated my theory yet, it is there but still being nutted out. You are not mad in hearing it and you don't need to be disturbed to do so....in fact, I believe it is the people who are in tune with it that hear it the most. I have asked some of the local Menang people about it and they say it is a place that people should not go to. They obviously 'hear' it too. As you might appreciate, it is a difficult place to try and understand, but I think I have made my peace with it.
I cannot wait to read your thesis!
It's a nice poem, Tim. A quiet moment.
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