Arriving in Magic: Poems by Adrian G R Scott
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In Arriving in Magic he describes a refusal to pass the gap that gates the path unnoticed and this opened many Gateways disclosed in poems like When will you be ready and The Edge of Bleakness. The chapter Path Crossings celebrates the people whose presence has given him a magical awareness of life and death.
The Tuscany section recalls a trip in 2010 with the Poet David Whyte and how this alerted him to the magic of everyday life. Unearthings narrates what the commonplace contains when approached with fierce attention.
The final section Glad Arrivals reveals the wonder he came to experience, and moves into The Starving Edge challenging the age of austerity; asking more than simply the recreation of a broken system.
Ending with an invitation to a Certain Kind of Vow this collection is a personal testament adding to what Goethe calls the praise of what is truly alive and what longs to be burned to death.
Adrian G R Scott
Adrian G R Scott lives in the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield, UK. He is the author of two collections of poetry and one piece of prose. (www.adriangrscott.com)
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Contents
Arriving in Magic
1
Gateways
When will you be ready?
My Face
Haste
Lara’s Surgery
Initiation
Step One—I Am Mad
The Edge of Bleakness
Ladybower
2
Path Crossings
I Am Me And You Are You
Visiting Shawbost
Evacuee
Uncle
For Tess
3
Tuscany
Married Again
Falling
Mendicant
4
Unearthings
The Pond
Accompaniment
Annunciation (digitally)
Visits to Laugharne at
Fifteen and Fifty
A Bigger Picture
Christ Before the High Priest
Death Lodge
The Girdled Tree of Eyam
5
Glad Arrivals
Blossom
Silence
The Circle
There is a Stage
This is All the Life You Have
The Starving Edge
6
Walking On
There is a Certain Kind Of Vow
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.
The Holy Longing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For my children
Eva Katharine 27th April 1991
Lara Francis Hope 23rd October 1992
Thomas Donald Gabriel 17th November 1995
Arriving in Magic
Why do I always turn to the stone
to try again for a king’s sword
when wizards wait out in the wood
set to make of me a master?
Again and again I am snatched
by flattery to step up and lead,
be on the team, sit on the board,
ignore the space that incubates.
No more can I pass the gap that gates
the path unnoticed, stepping through
towards mossy trees and fish’s glimmer,
novice to the green flame in the bud.
This magic is the fierce embrace
of all that makes up our life’s course,
uttered bold in faith to the deep
unsleeping witness of the dark.
That unyielding and steady gaze lays
bare the me I really am and
not the me I would have you see.
Finding the dragon’s shadow dancing
vast on my small room’s wall and see
how often I’ve pinned its tail on you,
and as his scales form bright on my skin
I inhale richly his secret fire.
An old skin sheds no longer needed,
a way of good belonging now
outdated, letting go its grip I
find my orbit round a greater force.
No more am I a hub for hubris
to build its castle on, no longer
a beggar for attention but an
owl-eyed hunter for the untamed space.
The ring you place upon my finger