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Retracing
Gorse spines
Embedded in stockings
Raging moorland /grassland
And bracken
Landscape as history
Dry stone walls marking the boundaries
I retrace my steps
Northwards, desolate
Except
Gracing the skyline as
Evening gathers the
Residual light
Are birds tracing a familiar
Lineage – my shoes for
Dancing make sparks of the cobble autumn moss
Inhabits a space
Not in-between but mapping the contours
Evolving a language
[Mendoza, aka Linus Slug: Insect Librarian, is a Northumbrian poet living in London. Publications include: WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths collaboration with Peter Manson: Materials, 2018; the science of poetry : the poetry of science Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside, 2015 and Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug, Contraband, 2014. Mendoza's visual poetry has appeared in Tentacular and under the persona of Pat Phaggs in Datableed issue 9; their poetry can also be heard at the Archive of the Now]
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