What are the wetlands to me?
​
to walk through the Walthamstow Wetlands

My drive
to be productive
replaced with wind and birdsong
                
The city I inhabit
frames this place
yet cannot contain it

Nature lurches 
grips grabs
flits flaps
squawks 
expands
infuses 
inspires 
contracts

Season's
change
everywhere
in everything

this is where
life
breathes
life

Flies
butterflies 
dragonflies
birds in flight
and
pylons
and
trains

Nature here accepts all we place within it unconditionally

A leaf dances on the concrete

​Its pretty beautiful aye!

(for a big machine)
​Imagining a vast mechanism 
enmeshed within
the solution
which is the liquid environment
​we are a part of

the world has ears
the world has eyes
the world can smell
the world touches 
and feels
and moves


the world
the human
the person
senses
or feels in every different way 
that 
every different human senses and feels
impressions
colour
smells
feels


walking
feet
conversation
ground
fluid 
air
life


nothing is simple
everything is simple


the setup 
for everything 
is exquisite 
in unity 
and multiplicity


all of this I pass through
all this air
component parts
to understand simplifying is necessary


so then it is simple
because
an actual 
physical 
experiential
we are of the same language


experientially we converse 
and are detected 
by everything we walk through


the stick falling
in the forest with no one present 
falls on the ground 
whether anyone is present or not
what is sound which is not heard 
by human ears


opportunity 
outside of arrogant reductionism
reducing things down to human experience
allowing the importance of that which is not us
but 
which acknowledges us
just as I walk past horses 
in fields
pillons


someone with a weed strimmer
in Walthamstow 
Marshes


birdsong
insects fly


late spring
mid spring
spring


following me
in front of me
moving away from me
out 
of 
the space 
that 
I occupy 
as 
I move
paths change
my path 
alters 
others paths 


seeing
talking
feeling
space
watching
observing the difference of space


changing altering dancing in space


Is everything we do perfunctory? 


a dreamer walks dreaming
bumbles 
and chances 
upon


gold
gold?
not gold
gold
not gold
whether not gold 
or gold


all surrounding is a conversation with me


we share 
and watch
space 
with 
the butterfly flutter


camouflaged
conversation with bird 
ends
in nutrition


all is ears and eyes and senses


the mind takes this
for its track


minds track


the mind takes things into the mind
but the mind does not occupy the sensory world
other than as
a switch board


the switch board is 
not the function


all is sensors and response
everything I pass notices and articulates response


in the slightest way
quiver of a leaf
a darting of a robin
the interest
of a cat


space changes
changes of space
dynamic flow


all is still
never
all is still 
not
still
things change
and alter
progression
of change
and alteration


this is nothing to that
that is nothing to this


we find and locate space


dynamic changes
mating flies on a step
as I walk down
move out of the way
change location
I am part of this
I am this
each part is entire
each part is the whole of this
there is nothing outside of this
we can not be reduced
each part can not be
reduced


will not survive


only abstract


like a line of no thickness on a CAD drawing 
its impossible
the line always has thickness
otherwise the line is not visible
a visible line can not have no thickness it just has a thickness at a certain time
its variable
its not true
it is true


that the code of all of this is somehow separate from all of this is an extraordinary notion
that the code is stored
that there is a
there is somehow a central 
computer bank
with a plug 
going into an energy reserve
but what if
the articulation was coded from within
that the energy was stored entirely from within
that there is nothing which is not that
there is no outside
there is none
there is no outside all seeing god
all seeing god is through everything
must be
otherwise
it is not omnipotent
omnipotence is all present
the clue is in the word


its impossible to be all present
unless you are everywhere
therefore god is everywhere


all seeing
god is all seeing
all seeing
every where
perceiving
seeing
perception
this is the thing
this is the code