{"id":1795,"date":"2013-03-15T05:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2013-03-15T05:56:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:56:33","slug":"a-mere-moving-pinpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"a mere moving pinpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A few years back I was sitting in a conference centre in Goolwa, South Australia. A vast window pane looks onto Lake Alexandrina. I was thinking about a poem I\u2019d just heard by Alex Skovron and another I\u2019d read a few days earlier by Les Murray. Both were about the nature of time. The grey sky and lake were almost featureless until I saw a distant bird (possibly a very high pelican or lower-flying duck \u2013 difficult to say since it was just a dot.) Suddenly it seemed to me that this was the perfect trope for time itself; the infinite past and future and the present as an ever-moving point. A kind of geometrical representation of the fleeting nature of \u201cnow.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s a brief poem, but particularly dense. I named it “present.”<\/p>\n

Now my ccmixter-colleague speck<\/em> (ironic, desu ne?) has remixed the poem with the help of a constellation of talent:<\/p>\n

speck<\/em> – production<\/p>\n

panu moon<\/em> – bass, percussion, guitar and piano
\nDeb Matthews_Zott (aka debbizo<\/em>) \u00a0– synths and guitar
\nrobwalkerpoet<\/em> – vocal, shakuhachi
\nCSoul<\/em> – cello, strings
\n@nop<\/em> – bass, beat
\nKungFu<\/em> – percussion
\nIDzeroNo<\/em> – vocal.<\/p>\n

Thanks speck<\/em> and everyone else for this reinterpretation of “present.”
\n(Click on the title beneath to hear it.)<\/p>\n