Cornwall Recce, 2018…
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This kind of weather
adds to the atmosphere of these places,
and makes the sun big…
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The Merry Maidens stone circle
is another of those with an attendant legend…
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Which posits the stones as people
petrified for dancing, or making merry, on the Sabbath,
and which, ‘sort of makes one want to dance here’…
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It is, perhaps, natural to speculate
on the original inhabitant of our next site…
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Given its proximity to Dans Maen,
a short walk away,
and to the road, which would have been a track,
but a few feet…
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It is tempting to ascribe it a hermit’s tomb…
Our notions of that venerable occupation,
today, differ somewhat from the undoubted
reality of the situation…
It is difficult for us to imagine him or her dancing.
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