A Reckoner's Mark - Revision history

Forthright at 15:09, 27 March 2022

2022-03-27T15:09:02Z

Forthright at 17:51, 26 March 2022

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Forthright: Created page with "I laid a mark, a track, a trace In sodden clay, at riverside Upon the rooty bank, at dusk A sign, an ancient character Akin to those my grandma carved Atop the lintel and..."

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Created page with "I laid a mark, a track, a trace In sodden clay, at riverside Upon the rooty bank, at dusk A sign, an ancient character Akin to those my grandma carved Atop the lintel and..."

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I laid a mark, a track, a trace

In sodden clay, at riverside

Upon the rooty bank, at dusk

A sign, an ancient character

Akin to those my grandma carved

Atop the lintel and the hearth

And on her husband's sepulchre.

Few now can read the elder marks

An alphabet of lowly folk

Who danced the river, sung the wind

Now write their days on cobblestones

In an unfitting parchment-hand.

I laid a trace, a track, a mark

A monument in river clay

That soon enough will wash away

I scratch it not for living eyes

But grandmothers and cypress-roots

And for an hour, the river sees

That still it is my home.

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 An alphabet of lowly folk
-Who danced the river, sung the wind
+Who danced the tide and sang the wind
 Now write their days on cobblestones

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 I laid a mark, a track, a trace
-In sodden clay, at riverside
+In sodden clay, by river's edge
 Upon the rooty bank, at dusk
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 And on her husband's sepulchre.
-Few now can read the elder marks
+Few now can read the elder glyphs
 An alphabet of lowly folk