Nonplussed at Westbury : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Nonplussed at Westbury / Giles Watson's poetry and prose
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| 説明 | Nonplussed at WestburyThe White Horse cannot suppress a snortOr two of recognition before that inevitableSense of deflation sets in. There are evenRamparts of a fort in the right position,And a grassy eye, but the beast itself is staid,Restrained. It barely blinks or shudders,Just stands there looking handsome, doesn’tPaw the turf or kick up a clump of flinty loam,Tame as a work of taxidermy. The lower lipHangs as though anaesthetised. The fossilsIn its skin have a look of extinction about them.Long ago, the Westbury Horse had beenGood company for a gallop through thePleiades. On dark nights, the old sickleTail was an acceptable substitute For a moon, and it scattered the lesserStars with stumpy legs. But that coltHas been buried by Enlightenment;The replacement inert as clay, quiteDrained of skittishness. Nothing works:No piaffe, passage or pirouetteCan provoke the slightest whinny.Poem by Giles Watson, 2012. The Westbury Horse was heavily reconstructed in the late eighteenth century, but when Richard Gough surveyed the creature in 1772, he depicted a very different creature from the one which exists today. |
| 撮影日 | 2003-02-04 06:56:26 |
| 撮影者 | Giles Watson's poetry and prose , Oxfordshire, England |
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| 撮影地 | England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S5000 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.0 |