Trick/Treat

 

Gammon on the Menu

 

Plums

 

A Lot of Pasta

 

Biscuity Base

 Lockdown cake - excessively rich.  Only small slices at a time.

Around Downe

 So we went for a short walk around Downe, famously the location of Darwin's home, Downe House, which we circumnavigated.  And the local pub where Nigel Farridge drinks.  Which we avoided, and not because of Covid!

Telescope, by Louis Glück

 

TELESCOPE

by Louise Glück

There is a moment after you move your eye away
when you forget where you are
because you’ve been living, it seems,
somewhere else, in the silence of the night sky.

You’ve stopped being here in the world.
You’re in a different place,
a place where human life has no meaning.

You’re not a creature in a body.
You exist as the stars exist,
participating in their stillness, their immensity.

Then you’re in the world again.
At night, on a cold hill,
taking the telescope apart.

You realize afterward
not that the image is false
but the relation is false.

You see again how far away
each thing is from every other thing.