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Fragments of the Ship Canal Project

by Patchwork Rattlebag

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Seascape 04:33
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At Eastham where reins lash the cyclical tide Steered back to the stable from the gate it can't jump Locked and secured from the ditch by a door The routine untamed crossed novel ambition unbridled Looking back to the east and thinking of roots Chronology wavers. Engraved back-to-front In all that I read I saw only the background But the yew at St. Mary's must have witnessed the truth It could be said that I, in my time have seen much More than the sum of you all, in a way, and yet With the restriction that delimits and defines my sight That stems from my form, to the earth adjoined Forever fettered to the provisional, designed to the partial I discern only fragments and so do we all So from here my task is to collect the fragments That befall me disordered and occasion by chance To present as symbols in serendipitous patterns That prescribe the odds of receiving The meaning advanced
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Spawn in silence, semi-swimming abjectly unsighted And chancing upon attraction, we coagulate In the corners, beneath the framework Aggregates collide to form this How spectre defied curve Sets order, lay A-B We bond while n fnd, s
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'Most important enterprise… Be prosperous and thrive' Released from the Mersey and open today Is an invitation to pass And no longer be docked in rival places Be free from the mercy of Railway Kings Driven by the triumph of our patriotism And of our faith in the grace Of those that dare speak in our place All along In the inventories of these libraries Were the manuals to rupture The elasticated walls Exposed now are the distensions and omissions The partial diagrams The interest of the trusted onlooker Wilfully blind to an understudy cast Now we read the difficult lines That diverged the more For having come some close together Here is a timely intervention to remind us And turn us back From the easy fallacy of a simple past A green hue on black and white

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released January 9, 2017

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All images © Patchwork Rattlebag, courtesy of Chantelle Valentin

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"...song-driven, psychedelic, electronic music that touches on themes ranging all the way from dogma to Dada."

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