Eadwin's latest album Presence follows the story of Cro who is searching amongst the wildflowers for the root of all creativity. By learning five skills and journeying to the source, the essence of all art is revealed.
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Arenaria Cro makes a parallel noise Each caw a different word Cro sings perpendicular Each cry a different world Cro thinks interdimensional Each Cro a different bird Vita brevis, ars longa Cro has been a creator For many lifetimes in many worlds Often all at once Often all at once Never knowing the source of the poem Never knowing that rushes through Never knowing Cro's formless body, settling like stormless dust Coalescing in the mind like hoar-frost from the breath Of five broad trees Perched on the bank, tall-grown and Diaphonous, diaphonous Stoutly stands Wild Carrot Wanderer, architect of the game Wild, warden of the name Storyteller, keeper of the flame Wild Carrot A pictogram, scratched into the ground A pictogram, a temporary hope Against the overwhelming currents of entropy Against the overwhelming currents of destiny Arenaria Cro arises, learns the five tools Travels the five ways Defeats the five defences But only in the fifth world track Cro arises, learns the five tools Travels the five ways Defeats the five defences But only in the fifth world track Cro realises the story spun Is a tale of the artistic One The one they call the root of all story The source of all creativity The purple-rooted umbellifer calls on Cro The purple-rooted umbellifer calls on Cro The purple-rooted umbellifer calls on Cro The purple-rooted umbellifer calls on Cro "By the finery of my leaves and the filigree of my flower I ask you to answer the call Five skills to master Five ways to journey No glory awaits those who seek it Only the settling of a curious mind The words spoke to Cro Who did not hesitate Daucus carota Daucus carota Daucus carota Daucus carota 02. TriBoundless Cro wants to acquire a strength More than proportional to Cro's modest mass More than proportional to Cro's modest mass Disproportionateness curls around the tongue Greedy-thirsty, alimentary Elemental A conceit born in the belly of vanity Saliently nourished and dream-folded, garnishing pride Garnishing pride Cro stands empty, wishes almost forgotten Dismal and bereft, a vessel waiting to be filled A vessel waiting to be filled Yet unexpectant and vacuum-vacant One half-day's Aimless browsing Half-flights and Humble hops Eventually A distance is covered As if by accident As if by accident As if by accident A falling-towards An unstressing nonchalant pitch and yaw Elegiac photo-principles froth against A mental sea of calm Waiting for something, waiting for nothing, waiting for something Waiting for something, waiting for nothing, waiting for something Waiting waiting waiting waiting Hawthorn hawthorn Perching on searching from Perching on searching from Perching on searching from Perching on searching from Perching on searching from The first of the five tools to be acquired Falls into Cro's body memory like it has always been there High into the air Cro is giddy with power Summoning energy effortlessly Amazed At this new capability Windlass wenderful Windlass wenderful Tucking it into a quiver of capability Culpable and quasi-confluent Crataegus monogyna 03. Retainaria Shook like a rook Pennyworth in oxsana-dem Cro moves through The landscape Scanning horizont and lateral-wise Unencumbered and open Open to ideas and underestimated fears Dissolve into Quiet observation Mollified and quasi-quaint Cro cannot fail to notice The flow the flow the flow the flow the flow Flow smooth and crystalline Invisible 3-D forms Fluctuating and palisading Tumble-spread slant-wise Coating the bankside with glutinous gabrels of luck-foam Cro hovers, luck hovers, Cro hovers Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed as pure luck Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed Waiting to be dispersed as pure luck Waiting to be Retainaria The lucky few Retainaria The lucky few Retainaria Retainaria Retainaria Retainaria The lucky few The lucky few The lucky few A holding place swollen with expectation Beneath the Meadow Cranesbill Cro notices a slight form Shadow hopping, blink startling The robin is guild and glendid Closed but curious Reluctant to reveal What Cro wants to steal Retainaria retainaria retainaria retainaria All Cro's tricks are tried and denied From syntactical to impractical Frustration begets determination Mellifluous and silver-tongued Mellifluous and silver-tongued Mellifluous and silver-tongued Cro tries again to get the robin to show how to bring luck But Cro has no luck, and sits in a nearby tree to contemplate Empty-minded, single minded, un-minded, thinking about nothing The blue of the Cranesbill is the key The colour that unlocks the dream The halfway dream that allows entry To the half-world where luck lives The halfway dream that allows entry To the half-world where luck lives Synthaesiatrical chance fulfilled Cro soon delights in wrangling Luscious lumps of unmade luck Into directed bursts and delicate dictates For Cro's own benefit Geranium pratense Geranium pratense Geranium pratense Yaey yaey yay 04. So Carroway Cleve is known, cleve is sown in the sky Grown by the wind Shaping the cleverness of all species Dispensed by all crows Dispensed by all crows Harvested by static wing flaps Toe-talons grasping The tallest twig of the tallest trees Channeling like lightning Channeling like lightning Cloudbursts falling like meteors Huge voltages passing harmlessly through Cro's beginner body Swiftly accomplishmenting, graduating years, millennia of experience Into a clawful of moments, building and nidifying Collateral allowing The equitable disbursement of the precious cleve Free from favour or arbitrariness Aided and abetted by Gladed and duetted by White Clover One sixty-three ceph, ghost-blessed, spangle-hearted White Clover, white clover, white white white white clover So carroway, flow harroway, Cro flyaway So carroway, so carroway Clover field shines whitely and directs and exchanges the cleve So a fox has an idea A deciduous Larch chooses the best time to fall back to earth And the goldcrest knows just where to nest While the burdock knows just when to release a seed-burr That will cling to the leg fur of a passing roebuck On the infinite plain of three-leaved plants A four-leaved clover lies Waiting quietly unassuming Waiting four-leaved clover Waiting four-leaved clover Waiting four-leaved clover Waiting four-leaved clover The reward for Cro's hard work Receptacle and the reservoir For some private personal extra cleve That is only for Cro That is only for Cro That is only for Cro That is only for Cro The non-fair-share the non-fair-share that proves the rule The non-fair-share the non-fair-share that proves the rule The equity of cleve amongst all life The equity of cleve amongst all life The equity of cleve amongst all life Trifolium repens Trifolium repens Trifolium repens Trifolium repens 05. Bunderstoria Nomen nomenclaw nomenclawchur More than more than names more than names are for The power of naming things Is what Cro seeks, knowing of the true name, giving of the true name Deep-dappled, beech-shadowed, leaf-litter understory Here Cro divines the names of the small quiet plants Hesitant at first, wrong-footed Drawing a blank Squatting close to the object, quizzing Listening to the leaves, fathoming roots Webbing systemics, reducing radices Diving into mycelia Fishing fruitlessly amongst the tangle of name-space Cro's mind is drawn to One individual: Red Clover, Red Clover Red Clover is the name we know Three-leafed, emblazoned Red Clover is the name we know Fluffy redhead, nitro-rooted Swooping through the dark angles Scanning for a connection Inhaling the essence of the clover Noting the way the leaves Bob under the weight of raindrops Speeding up seed to cotyledon Sprout to leaf to flower to seed An arc of a life Leaving a distinct fingerprint A trail of echoes, a trail of echoes From outside it seems that Cro is in a trance Head askance Legs trembling, wings spread as if anting Over the ground Suddenly a name - Blodclaef Forms out of nothingness - Blodclaef Suddenly a name - Blodclaef Forms out of nothingness Just the thought of the word Makes the clover flicker alert Flexing its leaves into a perfect hundred and twenty degree aposition Nodding its fuzzible head croward Cro acknowledges the respect with a brief tilt of the beak Releases the clover from all obligation Cro merely wants the skill of naming, not the power over the named Trifolium pratense Trifolium pratense 06. Chorcharden A single step has a direction A single wing flap in three or more dimensions A single Wayfinding into the unknown Cro knows how to navigate Mapless and perfunctory Cro knows how to navigate Pliable and vasselless Sniffing strands of humectant hyphae Steering by nameless star clusters Nominating northness Polarising scentless skylight Even under north northlight even under cloud cloud cover Twisting the transparencies and apparatus of the Wevnet Always returning to The basal frame of reference Basal frame of reference Always returning to Always returning to The basal frame of reference Chorcharden Chorcharden Densely populated bankfuls of tussocky graminae Highlighted by stalks of Rough Hawkbit Each seedhead a teleportal to another distant hawkbit Kaleidoscopic prime radiant Golden crystalline and polyhedral Cro examines the field Of interlocks and interlocutionals Friendly-finding and side-sniffing To locate the individual That will form the route to The Presence That will form the route to The Presence Three darknesses fall and rise While Cro roosts sleepily and stubbornly each night Perched in the wild plum tree Pondering the next move Kingless in a field of pawns Kingless in a field of pawns Kingless in a field of pawns Verily vassitudinal Verily verily verily verily and Vigourously heptapademic Heptapademic Cro swoops and selects the shining globe The one that speaks the loudest Gape-mouthed, cotton-tasting diamante tongue fulfilled Explosion of light Cool mineral energy Vanishing in a quiet clap of Pure charcoal crowness Shadow shadow shadow Shifted shifted shifted dimension dimensionless Leontodon hispidus Leontodon hispidus 07. Sand'san w'Ichita Lopsidactyl sand crunch beak peck soaring Coastal ramifications Far day's journey eastwards Brought Cro corvi-ovionic Sun-blessed and deep blue skyed Following the slow flow eastward Of the chalk massifs until the land stops Exfoliate, exfoliate Strangeness vibrates in vast fields Edges permeate Cro circles to comprehend the edge-rules and corner calculi Curiousity un-proteinfolds molecular And focuses on sandy edges Phalapropy and comicova The intense feeling of déjà vu Infuses Cro's thoughts It was here, it was near but far It was here but near it was far but clear But made no sense to Crologic It was far but near Back blast the goat smell Tall and flutipular lozenge tongue Lanky-curled, bleviate and odourlicious Oh-oh-oh-oh delicious Lizard Orchid Nestled below a huge clump of Beach Rose Lizard Orchid Nestled below a huge clump of Letchberry Cro finds this all instantly normal No-one has looked here before so Unerring Crologic glimmers everywhere Glimmers everywhere Unfeathered, flyless Tendermoria japonica Japonica ornimental Japonica ornimetal Sand'san w'Ichita Sand'san w'Ichita Sand'san w'Ichita Darwinian trumpet tubes catch Cro's eye Darwinian trumpet tubes catch Cro's eye Beady and particular Beady and particular Nuzzling the nectary Cro is praedicta Probing deep Into the interior Tongue uncoiling Seeking salty sugarness Pollinia dust Cro's brow Cloaked by the dorsal sepal Cro's want is always to Push, pursue, exploit, opportune Cro's want is always to Push, pursue, exploit, opportune And soon Cro is climbing inside Whole body swallowed Unfeasibly By the scale-defying Lizard Queen So found Cro In a new meadow Far flung, far flung Yet familiar, yet familiar Rosa rugosa, Rosa rugosa Himantoglossum hircinum 08. Casabanqua Stalks are raised Porcupinish and maze paths baffle Cro Fending and forceful First fighters are the small red ants Polytranslucent red-tinted quiet fast and fearless Cro is used to anting, pale red globules Antiparastical But these are anti-Cro Ripping and nipping and stinging in all places Cro hops and flattens through the steep tall grass Shaking off assailants and wassailants (Ante cumbral) Shaking off assailants and wassailants (Ante cumbral) Shaking off assailants and wassailants (Ante cumbral) Shaking off assailants and wassailants Tesselated tassels Manelbrotian Corner-flexed and arte-tracious Tesselated tassels Manelbrotian Corner-flexed and arte-tracious Circumspectial navigation Refines and Cro progresses, unguesses Proceeding to a new dense purpularity Spikey-headed and stern Proceeding to a new dense purpularity Proceeding to a new dense purpularity Spikey-headed and stern Tall sentries of Knapweed Suddenly everywhere Centuries old - Knapweed Antecedent and preternatural preternatural preternatural preternatural Preternatural preternatural preternatural preternatural preternatural Bobbing deftly, Cro evades Wending wingflaps and Cro-fu Dancing leaves and somersaults Dazzling with daring d'aerial deployments Casabanqua Casabanqua With each level of barricade Cro feels more confident Conflating achievement with ability A fake transient but self-fulfilling nonetheless Fake transient Uphill struggle becomes unstoppable Mental barriers dropping Floating up Soon enough, but only after an eternity has passed Cro bounces forth onto an upland plateau A wide and rock-strewn plain Pluperfect-lithic preposition Simplifold and Canute geometricness Startles, startles, startles, startles Somewhere on this smooth surface An entrance is hidden Cro pecks and probes Pursuing a portal Pressuring for purpose Pressuring for purpose Centaurea nigra Centaurea nigra 09. Concrebollingen Conical, laconic and empty-tasting Cro ascends the rough-cast grey Forthwith and south-held A spell of unlocking is deployed The spell runs through Cro like a gust of wind Key-words forming unbidden Syrinx-fillingly Dual-chambered diads, double-glottal double stop-all Half-memories decouple and disaggregate Whence arises double-dotted leaves and morse-dashed petioles Munin power wordlessness Munin power wordlessness Buckwheat dongled grainheads Nodding evaporatively The native blur swirl of defocusedness Redshank Rhyme glymed fine signed Revealing unravelling An aperture opens up Unprepossessing ambivalent and unassumed Cro hesitates Succinctly and in the flow Hesitates Cro knows Cro knows Cro goes Cro grows Cro flows Cro knows Cro knows Cro goes Cro grows Cro flows Floating uphill stepwise Claw-footed and hapless Into the chamber, void-minded Unhoping Heart mouthed and syllabic the unknown, the trap Discomfit and pebble dished, temptation journey's end A wide wandering conclusion Ably wentishtic and febrile coated Darkness closes in Darkness closes in Darkness closes Concrebollingen Concrebollingen Indigo clontemprescarious Reaching the Entity Reaching the Entity Reaching the Entity Reaching the Entity Reaching the Entity Persicaria maculosa Persicaria maculosa Persicaria maculosa Persicaria maculosa 10. Kencomitant Alder Smirched from underground tunnels and root-clustered earth wall Cro feather brushes and squeeze crawls For what feels like many moon falls and swell-sicles In a dreamless state of travel And neutralised timespace Suddenly, suddenly suddenly Suddenly, suddenly suddenly A chamber opens up, vast and otherplaced Vast and otherplaced Gliding stretching Cro's eyes Strangely unprotected, Cro has penetrated to the inner sanctum Guarded only by Sainfoin everywhere Sainfoin nowhere Sainfoin polite, mute Sainfoin pink bonneted mute stasis Froo-it velderness, velderness Cro cannot see the good for the peace Kencomitant Kencomitant Kencomitant Kencomitant Sat there sat there formless vulnerable impregnable Blank faced lies The Presence Cro is astonished dumfounded The source of all beauty and creation is Dull and bland, flat lifeless, unsung Cro communicates somehow to The Presence Non verbal, a constellation of Characterless codons Characterless codons But The Presence has expected this, knows it, does not care The work of beauty is born of nothingness and disillusionment From nil via void out of abstraction undeployed Cro has been to the source, but the source has nothing Hope slips from Cro's grasp A dry coughing final gasp Onobrychis vicifolia Onobrychis Onobrychis vicifolia Onobrychis Onobrychis vicifolia Onobrychis 11. Pulè Arêtchon Cro is overwhelmed by a hunger, uncharacteristic desire To control The Presence, to have creation on demand To be free of perspicacity or the whims of fleeting inspiration Cro dives into namespace A search that is trance-like For The Presence's true name Past the small things The innumerable nameshapes of bacteria and fungi Past the small plants and arthropods And up into the soaring heights of trees Lakes, mountains and volcanoes From this high vantage Cro is breathless from the lack of air Making out the enormity of slowness Geological processes and tectonic torrents Almost unconscious, grasping at galaxies Spendulous, spiralling and alternate Parallel, vari-expanding Still The Presence's true name Is nowhere to be found Nowhere to be found Cro has clarity and confidence now Confident that no stone has been unturned Not a nominal nook has been nissed The result is simply and calmly negative, a null return Emerging from the name trance, back into Pulè Pulè Arêtchon Pulè Pulè Pulè Pulè Pulè Arêtchon Pulè Pulè Pulè Pulè Pulè Arêtchon The Presence nestles formless, hazily On the grassy bank The source of all creativity So faceless, bland and uncoloured In contrast a Harebell catches Cro's eye A nodding, brilliant beautiful baby-blue bell Tracing or projecting Splayed wideward in Radiation Unvisible, shimmering through Cro Unlocking a calm and quiet void Where a word-shape lies Solidly formed of nothing and everything All at once All at once Cro sees it Cro grasps it Cro is astonished, and laughs Cro sees it Cro grasps it Cro is astonished, and laughs And then the void-space Snaps shut and is gone Campanula rotundifolia 12. Terrazo Minoria Unnatural form in natural materials provides a landing zone A respite refuge for Cro to recover from the escape Safe back in the primal world track The Entity cannot retaliate here For Cro has taken its innermost secret Cro breathes easily Eyes half closed one foot resting For an arc of the warming sun Eyes half closed one foot resting For an arc of the warming sun Seven half sleeps echoed by Seven stemmed yew, seven stemmed yew Under the bobbing heads of the Oxeye Daisies Under the bobbing heads of the Oxeye Daisies Cro reflects on the excitement Obstacles achievement and disappointment Trying to reconcile The lack of beauty in the source of all beauty Marguerite complete replete Discrete beyond conceit Marguerite complete replete Discrete beyond conceit Terrazo minoria Terrazo Terrazo minoria Terrazo Terrazo In the eye of the beholder In the decay, in the breakdown And disposal and nutrient cycling Cro contemplates holding such an enormity of power Such an enormity The true name of The Presence Able to summon boundless creativity With a flick of the tongue, a passing whim or a fleeting thought Mocking the labours and Dedication of all art that has come before That has come before After the wax and wane of three moons Cro arrives at journey's end Alighting from mental flight With a determination to forget The Name To forget The Name Erasing Cro's new found power A restoration Cro feels to be right Cro feels to be right Leucanthemum vulgare Leucanthemum vulgare