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HungBy night I climb the scaffold.
Step, step, metallic uncertainty,
the slip-threat hanging, torch swaying,
an angler-fish bait hovering in the thickened air.
Its pool hits grass and rough-stoned walls.
Its pool hits slate, each square a sheaf pressed hard by time,
layering the roof, book-like, each a story in itself.

By night I settle my back on planks elevated
to greatness, a lifeboat up high,
mortar dust skimming my clothes.
Cold pins me down, bone-deep, empty.
I settle and stare, plunging deep to the world above,
the night sky a pool, a clarity hanging still,
a vertigo waiting to happen. Each star
a point of magnitude too grea

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Looking out over the Conwy Valley. It looks really dark, but it's mid-morning.
We call this the House Rock, because it looks very much like a house from the other side. It almost looks like a monolith, but I think it's almost certain it's just part of the glacial wrack and ruin that was deposited on these slopes millennia ago

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Date Taken: December 24, 2009

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~MrsCreosote Feb 8, 2010

A perfect musing-stone.
I'd sit on it all day like Rodin's Thinker, reading, sketching the landscape, drinking coffee (lot's of coffee in this weather....) until the rock would ask me to get off his back and move on.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Feb 8, 2010 Professional Writer

It's a very tolerant rock - I doubt it'd ask you to move

It'd be glad of the warmth

Thanks for the

and the

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~Ewa5 Dec 26, 2009 Professional Photographer

beautiful background scene

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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 27, 2009 Professional Writer

Thanks

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~Tweede-Kans Dec 26, 2009

I think it's a hermit of some sort. Like, a geologic hermit.

At first I thought it looked lonely, but if it's a hermit, then... not really.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 27, 2009 Professional Writer

I like that idea

It must be immensely wise, after sitting on that hillside for so long. Seen so many changes...

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~Tweede-Kans Dec 27, 2009

Oh yes. Yay for geologic deep time.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 28, 2009 Professional Writer

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~Tweede-Kans Dec 28, 2009

I was reading the Bible the other night and Jesus was quoted about the creaton of the world, and anyway I was SO tempted to jot down "4.6 Ga."

And how's that geeky, eh? If my geology lectures are sticking with me enough to where I recall the abrevation for billion is Ga.

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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 28, 2009 Professional Writer

I didn't even know the abbreviation for billion!

But is that an American billion or a British billion?

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