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Monocrome

by Datsch

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1.
Clawhill 02:25
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The light is sticky Cloying 3D gel I swoop and I yaw Down the kaleidoscope tunnel Tracks twin-coloured red and Tracks twin coloured yellow Each shifting the leaves and sky Darkening, deepening, enriching Clawhill Nutrimental, proteinaceous Frill-fronded and mani-fingered Vetch Vetch! Interleave my claws and toes Vetch! Amongst the graspoing tendrils Dry and baked, crackling in the diagonal shift-wind Foolish and furious Great expanses strewn All across the hillside Buffeted and tuffeted, purple-fold Ultimately correct by wavelength and perceived vision Vicia sativa
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Docga Scanca 02:35
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Docga Scanca Inhaled, imbibed, infused A catechism of distant lands, exotic Tibia fibia, angled askance I see in the blackness, the crowness, shadow lifting Prising details and thoughts from the Lost edges of nothingness Dynamic range Highlights flown away upon a rising wind Western Red Cedar Hangs soft-shouldered and shaggy Annelid-antsy, quasi-tabbed and quorate Ocean-warped tumblepass grooves crimping ever upwards Fathomable, top to toe Tamburate in the white heat Carved into the landcape, seared into the hroizon Full-full-ranging from night-black to noon-light Lemon taste in my mouth Thuja plicata
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Elwood 03:01
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My organic eyes lock on the grid Straining to discern meaning and pattern From low-res piixellation Slowly, detail emerges from the tall trunks Fractal from bough to branch to twig to leaf to petiole to stomata to cell Resolution: Atomic 1:1 Highest definition Integrated to infinity Non-Bayesian Austrian Black Pines Sway in a Pinetum Hard and obsidian, barked and needled The goldcrests flit, chit-chittery The goldcrests flit, obliviously Ignorable I feel I am passing from one stage to the next Indefinably A sudden claarity of thought and vision Purpose falling into place Arising logically from action Pinus nigra nigra
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Roelandia 04:09
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Twisting underfoot Adjusting an imbalance Fluting a flaccid covering, clinging pink I tunnel deep, reaching for sliders Adjusting the underlying colours, before I convert Foxglove Cleve comes quickly, channeled and controlled Effusive and hapful, the foxglove acting as both Aerial and distributor, scattering rays In a radial pattern Emanating from the Other Place, Recharging the critical faculties of beings everywhere Roelandia Colours beyond colours New colours, no colour How much Cleve you receive Depends only on your ability to absorb On your capacity for mental growth You appetite for cleverness For crows, this is infinite So they are the ideal custodians of Cleve As they neither need it nor lack it Digitalis purpurea
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Churr, Churr 04:20
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Spangle-shaped, precious, my consciousness Sparks and extrudes in the vast realm I take the potion Sample the colourless sepaks And step suddenly sideways Into the Monocrome Tufted, claw-webbed, un-flowered A random-spiralled discourse Droplets of insouciance From an alternative story line I want to dive deeper into Here the Old Man's Beard, The Traveller's Joy Is smoking over the hedge Churr, Churr Here it is the shape that tells the story Where colour, not tone is the arbiter, The belly-seeker Fibonaccian descent of bit depth My pallette, my memory Each sensation tonally flat Each shard of light critical Each photon a grain of volcanic sand Anti-basaltic Dendritic forms subsume entire portions fo my cortex My veins spread and pulse, Achromatic in the lightless light Soon the deluge of gray matter, grey anamorph Is more me than less me Black and white in infinite gesture Inside me yet outside Endlessly intertwined Yet never totally grey Always asymptotic towards 18% balance Clematis vitalba
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Leighbye 03:51
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Minimum shade, maximum light Bordering on edges shunted aside Frenetical receptacle, giddying gourd Laid by the labyrinth Shuttled and rolled whitewards Comprehending pure points of Black and White vs Grey A compromised balance point? Leighbye Nexus for nebular, foam-cored spheres Apex for thoughts and Crux of decisions Sphero-phlobotronic Snowberry, snowberry - pop! Snowberry, snowberry - pop! Infraction cessate and terminal Forog-pinted and blunty Mere-drawn metaflorical Adorably pale-crisp, bountiful and blowzy Round-tumble and accenturate A coming together That never quite comes to pass Symphoricarpus albus
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Burntwood 03:49
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Living hand to mouth, claw to beak Accepting the next task blindly Not knowing the larger plan Am I destined to always live in the shadows? Suddenly I see a parallel, a parable A young leaf casts a shsdow On the older leaf below Nettle siblings Nettle order of things Nettle cardioid leaves Nettle long-petioled Lighting strikes, igniting a flame Creating black, blackenedness from light Burnt intensity, burnt life Burntwood My turn will come Waiting from my chance to un-shine Embracing the shadows To fly out to the other side Urtica dioica Urtica urens
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Scoldhill 02:49
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Climbing up to the wall I find myself Climbing up to the nexus of hollow stem Climbing uo to Scoldhill Black background, white foreground Contrasting light and shade Marginal areas uncermonially dumped off the curve's apex Detail vanishing into balckness Hogweed and Snail Only the brightest and best still standing under this Umbrella of Contrast Cow Parsnip To counter the heat and dryness, the snail aestivates Cemented to the stalk, an aerial sanctuary Swaying Julliard and Augustine on a parched platform Dreaming of distant dew and the unfolding of rain-soaked leaves A febrile emptiness, inner freedom from: Scorn and Scold, Storm and Scald Scoldhill Heracleum sphondylium
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DonQuen 03:03
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Waft wavy wing-effect - lift dapple Seen (as if through a ) veil Inconsequential, indecisive moment Shutter speech Flutter speechlessness Backdrop draped Eyes straining for detail that isn't there It all makes sense from a distance, It all makes sense DonQuen Willow-by-the-rivers Seeing the world through The inverse of a fly's eye One / Oneth of a second Slab of growth Implied by both presence and absence Driven by the wind, lifted wholesale by the busying of air en masse Salix babylonica
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Deneley 03:38
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Crystal align Taste buds crinkle, curious Truth is overlaid As seen through Countless tiny shadows Sharp yet diffuse Deneley Particles of thought Arrayed and condensed From extraneous to contemporaneous Holistic and linear Grain and grit The shadows make a noise That only you can hear Jack-run-by-the-hedge Mustard and garlic Garlic mustard Parallel wisdoms in linear arrays I am seeking edges Travelling this corridor A straight line as I fly Whilst taking instantaneous side journeys Each developing my mind, gaining me credits Chalking up a future number That is the sum and tally of all my parts All my thoughts all my ideas all my dreams Alliaria petiolata
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Agathorn 02:44
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Roundels decorate Breathing clamly Stomata inspirate Shadowed, unalarmed Petioles pulse With particular pleasantries Golden-orbed and gallant Aathorn Flying along the isobar I follow contours of light from afar Swooping incline points of light Directing rays with my path of flight Receptors Receptivity ISO Sycamore Black Spot Acer pseudoplantatus
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Marden Parfa 03:33
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Late bloomer, great blur-er Soft abstraction, de-clarification Oofa, oofa, oofa I am immersed In and out of focused area A backdrop of blurriness A confounded context Circles of confusion all around My globe-headed early autumn nectarine bounty Last taste of sweetness For fly, bee and wasp Ivy flower, ivy flower Late september late septmeber Vespa nectar circumnavigation (the globe) 0.95, 1.4 Nocticro, Corilux, Coronecron Marden Parfa Leaves become formlaee, globular, diffuse Supporting and lifting Framing and shading Anonymous in the background But performing an essential role Hedera helix

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Following the explorations of Cro, a mythical young crow with an affinity for wild plants and flowers, each song in Monocrome is about a particular botanical species that Cro encounters, seen through a crow's eyes and inspired by a series of black and white photographs taken in the chalk hills of Surrey, England. Each song finishes with a micro-madrigal of the Latin name of the plant

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released December 7, 2021

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Datsch takes musical snapshots of the flora of the Surrey Hills, England as seen through the eyes of a mythical crow called Cro. Through-composed, unstrophic unrhymed free verse and prog-folkish with deep harmonies and wayward guitars.

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