EPISTEMOLOGIES OF PLACE

                            

EPISTEMOLOGIES OF PLACE - Brian Turner

There's a side to beauty

that is sadness enduring.

There's a belief in beauty

that's peculiarly universal

while unique in itself

to this punter, or that.

It's more the idea

than the actuality

of this place, not who

had the idea for it

that becomes a reality

previously unimaginable.

First there's the perception,

then the journey towards

understanding that comes,

you're told, with empathy;

and, finally, it's the where

you know that refines

the who you are. It's then,

you could say, landscape's

indifference in itself

mirrors our impermanence,

has no awareness of the dramas

which, paradoxically, heighten

and enhance the sense of the

numinous in nuance and hue.

In other words, you choose

what it is that makes for piety

and pleasure, and obligation,

and how you measure such,

and what is meant by home,

and why, or whether

you believe, before

your time's up, that

this big, unloved, untidy

unwalled room is it.