🇬🇧 Eleftherna Venerations

New in Index Ten Thousand:

Ravine ◦ 485, Veneration ◦ 486, Kermes oak ◦ 486, Shadow ◦ 487, Ve ◦ 487, Sisters ◦ 488, Gulley ◦ 489, Fig tree ◦ 489, Hind ◦ 489, Ox ◦ 489, Ivy ◦ 490, Ancient ◦ 490, Ruckus ◦ 491, Slicking ◦ 491, Earth quake ◦ 492, Queen ◦ 492.

Glossary: Ve is the vegetal identity and personal pronoun. Veneration is the vegetal generation and keeper of the ground.

Eleftherna is the ruins of an ancient city on Crete, inhabited from ca. 900 BCE to 800 CE.

🇬🇧 A Proud Fish

New in Index Ten Thousand:
Fish ◦ 1259, Shoal ◦ 1260, Deep sea organs ◦ 1261, Streamlined organics ◦ 1262, The domain of fish ◦ 1263, Ten thousand ways of water ◦ 1263, Pride of fish ◦ 1264, Free fish ◦ 1265.


En stolt fisk

Lov om ret

Danmarks naturlove (3)

Lov om den almene overdådighed

Danmarks naturlove (2)

🇬🇧 Law on Abolition of the Kingdom

The Danish Laws of Nature (1)



🇬🇧 Billhook and Hedge

Hedgerow, Devon. Photo: Robert Wolton, Devon Hedge Group.
Hedgerow with ash, Devon. Photo: Robert Wolton, Devon Hedge Group.
My aunt’s billhook.
Laying the hedge. Photo: Robert Wolton, Devon Hedge Group.
Urban hedge, recently maintained, Richmond, London, 2023. Photo: Jacob Gammelgaard.
Hedgerow in March, with allotment in the foreground, Mistley, Suffolk. Photo: Jacob Gammelgaard.

With gratitude to Tom Hynes and Robert Wolton from the Devon Hedge Group who kindly made available three of the photos above. Their website, http://www.devonhedges.org, is a rich and loving fount of knowledge about hedges and the ancient craft of laying and tending them. The photos (and hopefully the poem), show just what a hedgerow can do: for wildlife, for landscapes and for human quality of life.

*) Stevns is a county south of Copenhagen.

Verses 113-139 in the Danish version The Blog of Ten Thousand Things.

New things in Index Ten Thousand: Ant • 135, Billhook • 120, Crab apple • 129, Ditch • 118, Edge of blade • 126, Fauna haven • 133, Farmland • 117, Field: right-angled • 119, Generation: homo s. • 138, Hawthorn • 128, Hazel • 132, Hedge • 113, Hill • 113, Hook • 125, Knowledge: farming • 123, Larvae • 134, Lawn • 139, Living hedge • 127, Learn • 124, Mason bee • 135, Parents: homo s. • 115, Peasant • 137, Pollen • 114, Remembrance: the land • 116, Rootshoot • 131, Seed • 129 , Shed • 121, Sloe • 128, Sparrow • 134, Whetstone • 136, Willow • 130.

Flammehat

Heksering

Tre frøer på rad

Digt og kompost

Ting

Den

Ud at læse træer

Rågesjak

Sporefontæner

Tilstandsrapport over værkets brug af metaforer, antropomorfismer og andre banaliteter fra det poetiske feltarbejde.

Billedet er knipset fra min uundværlige ledsagebog Insekter i Danmark af Morten Hansen og Ole Jørgensen. Jeg låner det lige et øjeblik. Fordi det er simpelthen det bedste. Jeg lykkedes aldrig med selv at få et billede af den skorpionflue, jeg fandt i min busk af hvid snerre. Jeg skal nok lade være med at gøre det igen 🙏.

Wabi-sabi på nordisk

Saprofyt

Træstubalmanak 2023

Japanske lygter

Doggerland

Mols bjerge on my mind

Sæl

Træer på vandring

Liden storkenæb

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