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Gregg Heathcote

Solvitur Ambulando

Step by step by step
It sinks in
Clarity as mud between the toes
Downtrodden focus printed

Step by step by step
Pathway wends within
Wonder as water falling forward
Edging to the endless end

Walks a way
Moment its place knowing
Waits golden weight upon
Lightness travelling incognito

Walks right a way
Minded world in poesy's motion
Soles singing the line drawn astride
Umbilical skipping grounded

Wild and strange everything is
Turned upon purely domestic concentration
Plainness' pilgrimage this
Smooth-rippling horizon

Wild and strange it is
Rolled through excrement of ages
Nose rubbed in life's following
Heart burst abroad

Value is earth's pedestrian purchase
Gazumping freehold fancied
Here the pelt naked stalked
Enters "nothing special"

Value placing upon pedestrian purchase
Spacing seminal planted
Rhythm franks immediate despatch
Simplicity's constitutional overtaking

Pacing openness' enclosure
This worldling's doing a world away
Moment in space, away!
An idling business all

(© Copyright Gregg Heathcote, 2 October 1998)

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